"Given the shadow cast over these elections by the incidents of pre-election violence and the irregularities on polling day, we were unable to conclude that all aspects of the process were credible, peaceful and transparent," said the Commonwealth Election Observer Group in its report issued on 7 May, six months after the 15 October 2019 election. https://bit.ly/MozGEComm
Commonwealth observer reports are normally anodyne, but this one was unusually strong and critical, in part because Commonwealth and other international observers "were witness to … intimidation and serious incidents of electoral malpractice." Commonwealth "observers witnessed persons with ballot papers outside of polling stations in the Ilha de Mocambique" and another international mission "witnessed the smuggling into polling stations of extra ballot papers" in Nampula.
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