3 November 2009
Maputo — The Maputo City Elections Commission on Monday announced the final results of Wednesday's general election in the capital, confirming that the ruling Frelimo Party will occupy 14 of the 18 parliamentary seats allocated to the city.
The Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) will have three seats, and the former rebel movement Renamo will have one. This confirms the predictions made by AIM, based on the provisional count of the results sheets undertaken over the weekend by the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE).
The results read out by the chairperson of the Maputo city elections commission, Boaventura Lipanga, were:
Presidential election
Daviz Simango (MDM): 54,020 (15.2 per cent) Armando Guebuza (Frelimo): 285,947 (80.4 per cent) Afonso Dhlakama (Renamo): 16,858 (4.5 per cent)
Parliamentary election
Frelimo: 268,654 (76.5 per cent) MDM: 57,017 (16.2 per cent) Renamo: 18,511 (5.6 per cent)
Five other parties competed in the parliamentary election, all of them receiving derisory results, of less than one per cent of the total.
Lipanga said that no complaints or appeals had been received from any of the competing parties, either during the immediate count at the polling stations, or during the tabulation of votes in the municipal districts, or in the final tabulation at city level.
These results are a disaster for Renamo, but also a warning for Frelimo. In the 2004 election, the city only had 16 seats, of which Frelimo won 14 and Renamo won two. That year Frelimo won 81.9 per cent of the vote and Renamo 13.6 per cent.
In the November 2008 elections for the Maputo municipal assembly, Frelimo won 83.8 per cent of the vote, and Renamo 11.1 per cent. Thus in less than a year, Frelimo in Maputo has seen its vote fall by over seven percentage points (although it still enjoys an overwhelming majority).
The emergence of the MDM from the split in Renamo in 2008 has cut the Renamo vote by half in percentage terms, but it has also given those who voted for Frelimo only because they thought it better than Renamo somewhere else to turn.
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