Mozambique: No State Money for Campaign Funds

Maputo — Just ten days from the start of the official election campaign, ahead of the presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections scheduled for 9 October, the government has still not made funds available for the campaigning activities of the political parties.

One of the oddities of Mozambican elections is that tiny political parties, that have been dormant for years, crawl back onto the stage in the hope of receiving money out of the state budget. Rather than expecting their members…