Mozambique: CNE Does Not Notice Districts Ignoring Law to Block Observation

The CNE criticises civil society for not knowing the law, but it does not respond to complaints about district elections commissions (CDEs) and STAEs violating the law.

Across the country CIP correspondents and observers are being stopped from observing registration because they do not have a credential from the CDE. But the law says that observer credentials are only issued by the CNE and provincial elections commissions (CPEs), and not by CDEs. (Lei n.° 2/2019 de 31 de Maio, Artigo 252)…