Mozambique’s Election – Who Are the Presidential Candidates?

Some 17 million Mozambicans headed to the polls on Wednesday, October 9, to vote in elections that could, for the first time, usher in a president born after the country’s independence from Portuguese colonists in 1975.

Besides voting for a new president, voters will also choose 250 members of parliament, Provincial governors, and officials in some of the 11 provinces.

Parliamentary and provincial elections in the 11 provinces will be held simultaneously in the country of about 32 million people.