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MOZAMBIQUE: Highest court confirms ruling party election victory

Mozambique’s Constitutional Council, the nation’s highest court, confirmed Monday the disputed October election results that extended the ruling Frelimo party’s half-century grip on power.

Ruling party presidential candidate Daniel Chapo secured 65 per cent of the vote, the seven-judge bench ruled, revising down the initial results of nearly 71 per cent.

The final results follow two months of street protests that left more than one hundred people dead in the southern African country.

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Second placed opposition leader Venancio Mondlane has said that the election was stolen from him. Several international observer missions have also said there were irregularities.

Mondlane, who has taken refuge abroad for fear of his safety, vowed to call “a popular uprising” if the Constitutional Council approved Chapo’s victory.

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