Collapsing electoral integrity in Mozambique

Excessive secrecy has always compromised the integrity of Mozambique’s elections. The National Elections Commission secretly changes results with no records kept nor any public notice that have been made. official final 2019 elections were changed three times by Constitutional Council comment and identical document numbers. political parties want a politicised electoral machine party nominees to all bodies, steadily declined. By 2018-9 had become dominated ruling party, Frelimo, which was able openly change outcome municipal create 329 430 ghost voters in national Civil society observers an important check on elections; but 2019, independent observation blocked several provinces head civil one province assassinated police hit squad. judiciary, ordered rerun town 2013 elections, will longer intervene. This paper is empirical account those events.