{"id":226969,"date":"2026-03-15T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-ngo-calls-for-independent-electoral-tribunal\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:43:05","slug":"mozambique-ngo-calls-for-independent-electoral-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-ngo-calls-for-independent-electoral-tribunal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: NGO Calls for Independent Electoral Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Maputo \u2014 A prominent Mozambican NGO, the &#8220;Decide&#8217; Electoral Platform, has called for the creation of an independent electoral tribunal to replace the discredited National Elections Commission (CNE).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The organization&#8217;s proposal was presented on Wednesday to the committee organizing the &#8220;inclusive national dialogue&#8217; (COTE), which is based on a document signed last year by President Daniel Chapo and nine political parties. The country&#8217;s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, then transformed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130094.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 A prominent Mozambican NGO, the &#8220;Decide&#8217; Electoral Platform, has called for the creation of an independent electoral tribunal to replace the discredited National Elections Commission (CNE). The organization&#8217;s proposal was presented on Wednesday to the committee organizing the &#8220;inclusive national dialogue&#8217; (COTE), which is based on a document signed last year by President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6137,7239,7523,4704,682,257,9222,254,4877],"class_list":["post-226969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-electoral","tag-independent","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-ngo","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tribunal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/226969","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=226969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}