The Government of Mozambique recommends that the population not participate in post-election protests

It alleges that violence causes “disruptions to people’s lives and property”

Oct. 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Government of Mozambique has recommended that the population avoid participating in the protests called by the opposition candidate Venancio Mondlane, who faces open procedures by the Police due to his alleged responsibility in the “violence” recorded after the elections, in which has reported fraud.

“Demonstrations are authorized by law, but when they take violent contours it means that they cause disruption to people’s lives and property and that is not welcome,” said the Minister of the Interior, Pascoal Ronda, in a press conference collected by the Mozambican news agency AIM.

The person in charge of said ministerial portfolio has also reiterated that the Executive calls on the population to distance themselves from the demonstrations. “People couldn’t go to work, children couldn’t go to school, young people couldn’t go to universities because they were afraid, the terror they created is unforgivable,” he stated.

He also regretted that many of the young people “were dragged here by people who are the moral authors of this problem.” “The Public Ministry has files created related to the moral and material authors of the people who must be held accountable by the law and for their actions,” said the minister.

OPENING OF PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MONDLANE

Precisely on Tuesday, the Mozambique Police announced the opening of proceedings against Mondlane for his alleged responsibility for the protests registered in the elections, which has denounced fraud and has refused to recognize the victory of the candidate of the government Front for the Liberation of Mozambique ( Frelimo), David Chapo.

Police spokesman Orlando Mudumane said the agency “has opened criminal proceedings against Venancio Mondlane and his followers for the crimes of setting fire to a police station and possession of an AK-47 assault rifle in Moma, Nampula province.” Mudumane has demanded that Mondlane and the Optimist Party for the Development of Mozambique ( Podemos ), the party that supported his candidacy for the Presidency, “immediately return the AK-47 that his followers took from the Chalaua police station.”

During the day on Monday, Podemos published a parallel account of the elections in which it maintains that Mondlane won the victory after collecting 53.38 percent of the votes, ahead of the 35.66 percent collected by Chapo, whom The electoral commission has given more than 70 percent of the endorsements.

The National Electoral Commission (CNE) delivered the recount data to the Constitutional Council on Monday for analysis and possible ratification, amid the absence of publication of the official minutes by both the organization and Podemos, which maintains that it has provided them to the Constitutional Council.

In this context, the Mozambican president, Filipe Nyusi, has called on the population to “not allow themselves to be exploited” and has denounced the events in Chalaua, while raising the number of officers killed during the riots after the vote to 60, which have plunged the country into a serious political crisis.

The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced this Tuesday the “violent repression of post-election protests” in Mozambique by the security forces, which “using live bullets and tear gas” have left at least eleven dead and dozens of injured on October 24 and 25 after the results were announced.