MADRID 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Mozambican opposition lawyer Elvino Dias was shot dead this past midnight in the country’s capital, Maputo, in the midst of an increasingly tense post-electoral environment in the African country.
Dias, campaign advisor to presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, was shot by “armed men in a vehicle” when he was traveling with the representative of his Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique (Vamos), Paulo Guambe, also deceased, Joaquim Chissano avenue in the city center, according to security sources to the ‘Letter from Mozambique’.
Police sources confirmed to Bloomberg, on condition of anonymity, the death of both.
Mondlane had called for a general strike in protest against what he described as electoral fraud that occurred in the October 9 elections in favor of the historic Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), which has led the country for almost half a century, since independence, and has its greatest exponent in the country’s outgoing president, Filipe Nyusi.
The highest electoral body has until October 24 to publish the final results. Polls show Nyusi’s chosen successor, Daniel Chapo, as the possible winner, but Mondlane and his supporters are convinced that the opponent has won the elections.
Several election observers have raised questions about the credibility of the vote count, and European Union monitors have alluded to several cases of falsifications in the voting process. The country’s electoral authorities, on the other hand, defend the reliability of the process and remember that aggrieved parties can declare their complaints before a court with evidence involved.
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