{"id":178560,"date":"2024-08-15T03:16:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T01:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-observers-denounce-removal-of-powers-from-district-courts\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T03:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T01:16:44","slug":"mozambique-observers-denounce-removal-of-powers-from-district-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-observers-denounce-removal-of-powers-from-district-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Observers Denounce Removal of Powers From District Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Maputo \u2014 The &#8220;Mais Integridade&#8217; (&#8220;More Integrity&#8217;) Election observation consortium, formed by seven prominent Mozambican civil society organisations, has warned that stripping the district law courts of the power to order recounts in contested elections is a setback for Mozambican democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, amended the electoral legislation and initially there was agreement that the courts should retain their power to order recounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">In a rare example of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408130532.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 The &#8220;Mais Integridade&#8217; (&#8220;More Integrity&#8217;) Election observation consortium, formed by seven prominent Mozambican civil society organisations, has warned that stripping the district law courts of the power to order recounts in contested elections is a setback for Mozambican democracy. The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, amended the electoral legislation and initially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,8732,11583,8614,4704,682,257,12927,12139,9598,254],"class_list":["post-178560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-courts","tag-denounce","tag-district","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-observers","tag-powers","tag-removal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}