Maputo — Mozambique's ruling Frelimo Party on Wednesday night condemned as a flagrant violation of the electoral law the declarations by Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the rebel movement Renamo, that Frelimo was planning massive fraud in the second round of the mayoral by-election in the northern city of Nampula.
Interviewed on Wednesday's lunchtime news on the independent television station STV, Dhlakama claimed that Frelimo was bussing in large numbers of people from all over the country to vote illicitly in Nampula. He claimed that these busloads of fake voters came from as far afield as Niassa province on the far north, and Maputo in the far south.
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