Mozambique: Renamo Alleges Fraud On Mozambique Island

Maputo — Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has denounced last Wednesday's local elections on Mozambique Island, in the northern province of Nampula, as fraudulent, and has demanded "a second round".

The mayoral results, as announced by the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), the electoral branch of the civil service, gave the candidate of the ruling Frelimo Party, Alfredo Matata, over 3,700 votes more than his Renamo rival and current mayor, Gulamo Mamudo. These results were:

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