Mozambique: NGO Calls for Independent Electoral Tribunal

Maputo — A prominent Mozambican NGO, the “Decide’ Electoral Platform, has called for the creation of an independent electoral tribunal to replace the discredited National Elections Commission (CNE).

The organization’s proposal was presented on Wednesday to the committee organizing the “inclusive national dialogue’ (COTE), which is based on a document signed last year by President Daniel Chapo and nine political parties. The country’s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, then transformed the…