Mozambique: Tight Calendar in the Tender for Selection of Members of the 12 New Elections Commissions

This week (on 16 January) the public tender was launched for selecting the members of the Elections Commissions of the country’s 12 new municipalities. The closing date for the tender is next Monday (23 January).

Civil Society has less than a week to submit nomination papers for candidates to those support bodies in the 12 districts (see the tender appendix). The tender deadlines are very tight, and could limit the number of candidates from independent civil society organisations. This would…