(25 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Maputo, Mozambique - 24 October 2024
1. Wide pan supporters of Front for the Liberation of Mozambique party (Frelimo) watching on big screen announcement election results
2. Wide Mozambique president Filipe Nyusi showing ruling party candidate Daniel Chapo paper with elections results
3. Wide Frelimo supporters singing and dancing
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Daniel Chapo, Frelimo presidential candidate:
"I want to be the president for all Mozambicans, united from Rovuma to Maputo. Let us engage in dialogue, in conversation. It is not through street protests that Mozambique develops, but through peace, dialogue, harmony, security, and conversation. We are open to any Mozambican who has an idea to contribute to our country."
5. Wide of Frelimo supporters
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Daniel Chapo, Frelimo presidential candidate:
"As the Frelimo party, we want to once again reiterate our repudiation of the murders of Elvino Dias and Paulo Guambe as well as other citizens physically affected in this ongoing process of demonstrations."
7. Wide of Frelimo supporters
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Daniel Chapo, Frelimo presidential candidate:
"Each one of us worked for this victory, you don't win elections by just being a candidate, the Frelimo party machine wins elections, you don't win elections by being a one man show."
9. Wide Frelimo supporters clapping hands
10. Wide Chapo and Nyusi dancing on stage
11. Various tyres set alight after election results announcement
STORYLINE:
Mozambique's ruling party candidate Daniel Chapo was declared the winner of the country's presidential election Thursday as the opposition claimed the vote was rigged and one party said it would challenge the result in court.
According to the national election commission, Chapo won with 70,67% of the national vote, followed by independent candidate Venancio Mondlane with 20,32% of the vote. The candidate of the opposition party Renamo, Ossufo Momade, came third with 5,81% of the total votes.
The results of the Oct. 9 election mean the governing Front for the Liberation of Mozambique party, or Frelimo, has extended its 49 years in power since the southern African country gained independence from Portugal in 1975. It then fought a bloody 15-year civil war against rebel group Renamo, which later became the main opposition party and also contested this election.
Speaking shortly after the results were announced, Chapo told supporters he condemned the recent killings of two opposition figures. He also criticized the strikes called by the opposition to protest what it claimed was systematic deceit.
Police quelled the demonstrations this week, dispersing them by firing teargas.
“As the Frelimo party, we want to once again reiterate our repudiation of the murders of Elvino Dias and Paulo Guambe as well as other citizens physically affected in this ongoing process of demonstrations," said Chapo.
Dias, a lawyer and advisor to opposition presidential candidate Mondlane, was killed when gunmen riddled his car with bullets in the port capital of Maputo last Friday. Guambe, the party spokesperson, was also in the car and was killed.
Chapo promised to “try to do better for the Mozambican people,” regardless of race, religion or political affiliation.
Lutero Simango of the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement, who got just over 3% of the vote, on Thursday disputed the election outcome and said his party would challenge the results in court.
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