Mozambique: National Elections Commission Invents an Election Crime

Maputo — Mozambique’s National Elections Commission (CNE) has claimed, quite wrongly, that political parties cannot do any campaigning outside the official election campaign that begins on 28 August.

At a Maputo press conference on Tuesday, the CNE spokesperson, Paulo Cuinica, complained that some parties (which he did not name) are not observing the period marked in law for the election campaign.

“We have seen, with some dissatisfaction and some sadness, that certain candidates and political…