Mozambique: Law on Public Probity is Clear – MMVs Must Work Unpaid or Polling Stations Will Be Illegal

Teachers and other civil servants cannot be paid polling station staff (MMVs, membros das mesas de voto), which means nearly all polling stations are illegal. The Law on Public probity (12/2024 art 33b) prohibits any “office holder or member of a public body [to] receive remuneration from other public institutions.” Although this is in the law as amended this year, it has been true for a decade and was also art 32 of the previous law (16/2012). MMVs are paid positions.

Paulo Cuinica, National…