MOZAMBIQUE TO HOLD GENERAL ELECTION IN OCTOBER 2019 – PRESIDENCY
MOZAMBIQUE
TO HOLD GENERAL ELECTION IN OCTOBER 2019 – PRESIDENCY
Mozambique will hold presidential,
parliamentary and provincial elections on Oct. 15, 2019, the presidency said on
Wednesday, setting the date for a vote that will precede the southern African
country’s emergence as a major gas exporter.
President Filipe Nyusi set the date
of the election, a notice on the presidency website said.
Mozambique is due to start exporting
liquefied natural gas in 2022 from huge offshore fields operated by oil majors
including Italy’s ENI and Exxon Mobil.
The news men reports that General
elections were held in Mozambique on Oct. 15, 2014.
Nyusi, the candidate of the ruling FRELIMO, was elected as President, and
FRELIMO retained its parliamentary majority.
The President was elected using the two-round system.
Then President Armando Guebuza was
constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.
The 250 members of the Assembly of
the Republic were elected in 11 multi-member constituencies based on the
country’s provinces and two single-member constituencies representing
Mozambican citizens in Africa and Europe.
Seat allocation in the multi-member
constituencies was based on proportional representation using the d’Hondt
method, with an electoral threshold of five per cent.