Mozambique: No Competitive Tenders to Provide Election Material

Maputo — The Mozambican anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), has warned that the National Elections Commission (CNE) has deliberately avoided competitive public tenders to provide the materials that will be used in the presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections scheduled for 9 October.

Instead, the CNE and its executive body, the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), have awarded the contracts for election material directly, without any public…