Mozambique: Courts Call Some Polling Stations Heads and Counts Illegal

Caia court says 29 polling station chairs were in their posts illegally; criminal trials now possible

The Caia district court Thursday (17 October) backed a Renamo protest and said that it was illegal that 29 provincial trainers had automatically been named polling station chairs in Caia, Sofala. The cases of these 29 and others in Caia also automatically named members of polling station staff (MMVs) will now go the attorney general’s office (Ministerio Público) for possible criminal…