MADRID 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The opposition candidate in the presidential elections of Mozambique, Venancio Mondlane, has called this Tuesday for two days of “peaceful” strike starting this Thursday to protest the alleged fraud that would have been committed in the elections that were held on October 9 and which the ruling party won.
“We are going to sacrifice two days of our lives so that we can all demonstrate. We do not need to inform the Police, or the authorities,” he said through a video on his Facebook account. The chosen date is the one on which the National Electoral Commission will predictably announce the victory of the ruling party Daniel Chapo.
Mondlane has said that during those two days “the country must paralyze” in protest against the announcement this Thursday of some “deeply false” results and has insisted that this “was not what the people voted for”, in reference to Chapo’s triumph. with 60 percent of the votes, according to the highest electoral body.
He has not been the only one who in recent days has denounced alleged irregularities in the process. This Tuesday, the European Union’s electoral observation mission has warned of “unjustified alterations” of the results.
After the Police broke up the protests in the center of Maputo, the capital, on Monday, the African Union has appealed for calm on the eve of the announcement of results, which would keep the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) in power uninterruptedly since its independence in 1975.
Mondlane already warned this Monday after these mobilizations, also called as a sign of protest for the death supposedly at the hands of the Police of two of his political partners, that these were only the beginning of the protests.
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