Mozambique: MMVs Taught to 'To Do Everything Possible to Guarantee a Frelimo Victory'

Police and Frelimo in Chimoio tried to stop a planned Podemos motorcade with a large crowd passing the Frelimo headquarters on October 3. Five people were taken to the emergency services of the provincial hospital. Four of them were injured in accidents involving motorcycles and a vehicle, while the fifth suffered a physical assault. The police fired several shots to prevent the Podemos motorcade from passing. Some of the shots were fired from behind the Frelimo vehicle that was blocking the road. In addition to the Frelimo vehicle, in the video shared on social media, the police can be seen placing a vehicle to block the road behind the red vehicle used by Frelimo in order to hinder the passage of the Podemos parade.

In Chókwè, Gaza, polling station staff (MMVs) are instructed as part of their training “to do everything possible to guarantee victory for Frelimo”, one of the MMVs told CIP Eleições. It is one of a string of denunciations from Quissanga, (Cabo Delgado), Buzi (Sofala), Monapo (Nampula), Alto Molócuè (Zambézia) and elsewhere.

In Quissanga trainees were told they must comply with the instructions of the Frelimo party. In Buzi, trainers of the MMVs were summoned by Frelimo which explained that trainers will not choose which trainees become MMVs. This is for Frelimo to do.

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