Maputo — The statistics produced by Mozambique's National Statistics Institute (INE) "are reliable and should be used by society", declared the INE's National Director for Censuses and Surveys, Arao Balate, at a Maputo press conference on Wednesday.
The INE has come under attack from certain propagandists in Mozambican social media because its population statistics clearly show that the National Elections Commission (CNE) and its executive body, the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), have wildly exaggerated the number of people of voting age (18 years and above) in the southern province of Gaza.
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