Mozambique: Calendar Changes Fall; All Candidates To Be Submitted By Monday

The main purpose of the 30 April changes was to give candidates an extra 15 days to submit documents – 10,000 notarised signatures for presidential candidates and six documents for assembly candidates including a no-criminal-record certificate which opposition candidates often find takes a long time to obtain. The vetoed law set a new date of 25 June, but the CNE calendar sets the date as Monday 10 June, and this now in force.

However, a further problem is that the CNE calendar violates the law….