Mozambique: Constitutional Council Rejects Renamo Appeal

Maputo — For the second time, Mozambique's Constitutional Council, the country's highest body in matters of constitutional and electoral law, has rejected an attempt by the country's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, to reinstate Venancio Mondlane as the head of its list of candidates for the Maputo Municipal Assembly in the local elections scheduled for 10 October.

Mondlane had been a prominent member of the second opposition party, the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM). In the 2013 municipal elections, he was the MDM's mayoral candidate in Maputo, and slashed the majority of the ruling Frelimo Party from 85 to 58 per cent of the vote.

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