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Mozambique's Frelimo headed for clean sweep

Oct 29, 2009 10:24 PM | By Sapa-dpa

Provisional results for Mozambique's presidential and parliamentary elections show incumbent President Armando Guebuza and his party, Frelimo, are poised for a clean sweep.


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President Armando Guebuza casts his ballot in Maputo
President Armando Guebuza casts his ballot in Maputo
Photograph by: Ferhat Momade
Credit: AP

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Results trickling in from polling districts showed Guebuza enjoying a commanding lead over long-time opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama and the leader of a new party, Daviz Simango.

The results had yet to be tabulated and announced by the central electoral commission.

In the parliamentary election, Frelimo was also well ahead of Dhlakama's Renamo, a former guerrilla group that fought a 16-year civil war with Frelimo, and Simango's Democratic Movement of Mozambique, state media reported.

While no figures were yet available for turnout, participation was believed to have been high compared with 2004, when only 36% of the electorate voted.

About 10.3 million Mozambicans were eligible to vote for a president, 250-seat national assembly and 10 new provincial assemblies.

Frelimo has won every election since the country's first multi-party ballot in 1994. Simango, the popular mayor of the central port city of Beira, was contesting the presidency for the first time.

His party was barred by the electoral commission from contesting 9 of 13 constituencies in the National Assembly elections.

The electoral commission, which he accused of being biased towards Frelimo, cited procedural reasons.

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Oct 30 2009 08:23:36 AM
Africa_need_No_link_to_europe
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News not supplied by the African people that the African people consume is most of the time toxic and that is the news that enslave the African people mind.

we call for an African owned news agency with a bias approach toward the African people to become the only realiable news supplier on the continent.

Time to end the enemy propaganda.

this news may appear innocent, but they are building on this for ugly propaganda against us a head when people refuse to comply with their supremacy.
Oct 30 2009 03:26:41 PM
Frik
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Another election , another farce, 5 more years of devastation, Viva Africa Viva .You deserve your second class citizen status.


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