Mozambique: Gurue Election - High Turnout and Attempted Fraud

Maputo — Long queues built up on Saturday morning outside polling stations in Gurue, in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, for the rerun of the elections for mayor and municipal assembly.

Like every other municipality, Gurue held the elections initially on 20 November - but election staff committed so many gross irregularities that the Constitutional Council, the highest body in matters of constitutional and electoral law, annulled the elections and ordered the rerun.

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