Our correspondents and all other election observers must have official credentials to gain access to polling stations and vote counts. The law (art 251, lei 2/2019 de 31 de Maio) says credentials must be issued within five days of application. Each province has a different system and few are meeting the targets of the law.
In Nampula and Niassa, provincial elections commissions (CPEs) say that credentials issued for the April-May registration remain valid for the entire electoral process this year. The other nine provinces say their credential were only valid for the registration and observers must apply again.
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