Mozambique’s opposition calls this week for new protests against election results

MADRID 12 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The opposition candidate in Mozambique, Venancio Mondlane, has called for three more days of mobilization this week to protest the results of the October 9 elections and has asked the dissatisfied to now occupy ports, provincial capitals and border areas . “We are going to paralyze everything,” he said.

“We are going to demonstrate at the borders, in the ports, in the eleven provincial capitals,” Mondlane announced once again through his social networks. Currently in exile, the opposition candidate has reported that the protests will begin this Wednesday and last until Friday.

“For three days we are going to demonstrate, then we will pause,” stressed Mondlane, who has also extended the demands to protest the “kidnappings” and “murders” that the security forces have committed during the mobilizations that since the 21st October are taking place.

While waiting for official figures, some civil organizations and NGOs have estimated at least 30 deaths and more than 160 detainees during these days of demonstrations in cities such as Maputo, Nampula, Inhambane, or Tete.

Mondlane explained that this week’s mobilizations once again seek to paralyze the country, although he has assured that they will not force any citizen to join them. “Whoever wants, let them join,” he said.

On the other hand, he has rejected that the mobilizations have the objective of taking power by force and putting pressure on the institutions to “restore electoral justice. In that sense, he has asked the population not to carry out acts of looting and vandalism like last week.

“If we had wanted to carry out a coup d’état, we would have already done it. We are not going to give up, we are not going to back down. They have already killed many people,” Mondlane pointed out.

Given the call for these new mobilizations, the Consulate General of Portugal in Maputo has asked Portuguese citizens to “redouble security”, avoiding highly crowded spaces.

On October 9, elections were held in the African country, with the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo) once again emerging as the winner – this time with 70 percent of the votes – and has remained uninterruptedly in office. power since the independence of Portugal.