Mozambique’s leading opposition party Podemos filed a lawsuit demanding a recount of the country’s election results, which led to protests and violence after the ruling party was named the winner.
The suit, filed on Sunday, called on the country’s Constitutional Court to give “a true judgement on who won the elections”, according to the text of the document seen by AFP.
It demanded the court “repeat the overall counting” of votes, citing numerous alleged irregularities in the October 9 election.
Podemos representative Dinis Tivane told reporters the party had also delivered to the country’s Electoral Commission numerous boxes of documents which the party said were evidence that it won the vote.
The commission on Thursday announced the ruling Frelimo party’s candidate Daniel Chapo as the winner with 71 per cent of the vote and 195 out of 250 seats in parliament.
