Maputo — The Mozambican police on Tuesday fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of voters protesting that their names are not on the voter roll at the polling station where they registered as voters in Mocuba district, in the central province of Zambezia, according to a report from the election observation Facebook page of the anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP).
Observers said that, faced with the police action, hundreds of voters abandoned the Mocuba polling assembly. Unless they returned later in the day, these citizens lost their right to vote.
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