SADC calls for calm in Mozambique as final results are set to be announced

By Staff Reporter

THE SADC organ has called for calm i Mozambique ahead of the official announcement of results.

Mozambique Electoral Commission (CNE), the country’s electoral body has so far announced inconclusive results.

Results are expected on Friday.

SADC Organ on Politics chairperson Samia Suluhu Hassan, the President of Tanzania said she was aware that the CNE was finalising results.

“SADC is aware that the Electoral Management Bodies and other relevant institutions are finalising the election results expected to be released in due course,” said Hassan.

“It is this spirit that SADC urges all stakeholders to uphold in the period before and after the official announcement of the election results.

“As such, we call upon all stakeholders to ensure that peace and stability in Mozambique continue to prevail.”

The European Union (EU), former President Armando Guebuza, the United Nations (UN) and America have all condemned the handling of Mozambique’s post-election period by state security agents, following the killing of a lawyer and shooting of citizens.

“Evidence has been found of irregularities during counting and unjustified alteration of election results at polling station and district level”, read the EU observer mission statement released on Tuesday.