Mozambique's slide into one-party rule

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-165

  Manning, Carrie ^a  

^a University in Atlanta   (United States)

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EID: 77952053437     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: 10863214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.0.0165     Document Type: Review

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1. Presidential and legislative elections were held in 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009. Municipal elections were held in 1998, 2003, and 2008. Provincial assemblies were elected for the first time in October 2009.
2. In the one exception to Frelimo dominance, the mayor's office in the south-central port city of Beira went to incumbent Daviz Simango, who had been in office since 2003 as a member of Renamo. Seemingly worried by his vast popularity in the city, which is second in size only to the capital of Maputo, Renamo pushed Simango off its ticket before the 2008 balloting. His run as an independent led not only to his resounding victory, but also to the biggest split in Renamo so far and the birth of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MDM), which drew the support of Renamo's ablest politicians, including its leaders in parliament. Simango ran as MDM's presidential candidate in the most recent elections and won 8 percent.
3. On the importance of a level playing field, see Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, "Why Democracy Needs a Level Playing Field," Journal of Democracy 21 (January 2010): 57-68.
4. Frelimo has made inroads into the populous central provinces of Nampula and Zambezia since the late 1990s by improving infrastructure and promoting the rehabilitation of large investment projects, but these gains have not changed the basic pattern.
5. G19 Budget Support Group, "Analysis of the Process to Select Candidatures in the Run-up to the Presidential, Parliamentary and Provincial Elections," 6 November 2006, 4; available at www.cip.org.mz/election2009/ ndoc2009/273-Analysis%20of%20the%20 process%20to%20select%20candidatures.pdf.
6. Joseph Hanlon, ed., "Landslide Victory for Frelimo and Armando Guebuza," Mozambique Political Process Bulletin 43, 19 November 2009, 4-5; available at www.cip. org.mz/election2009/ndoc2009/288-Mozambique-Bulletin-43- Elections.pdf. See also G19 Group, "Analysis," 4.
7. G19 Group, "Analysis," 5.
8. Hanlon, "Landslide Victory," 4.
9. "Mozambique: MDM Promises Appeal to Constitutional Council," 8 September 2009, available at .
10. Hanlon, "Landslide Victory"
11. G19 Group, "Analysis," 6.
12. G19 Group, "Analysis," 7.
13. Hanlon, "Landslide Victory," 6.
14. G19 Group, "Analysis," 7.
15. Hanlon, "Landslide Victory," 8-9;
16. Paul Fauvet, "Elections: How Serious Was Vote Tampering?" AIM [Mozambique Information Agency] English-language radio newscast, 13 November 2009. Available at www.africanelections.org/mozambique/features/page. php?news=4621.
17. Fauvet, "Elections: How Serious Was Vote Tampering?" 2.
18. Hanlon, "Landslide Victory," 2.
19. Hanlon, "Landslide Victory," 2.
20. CNE president João Leopoldo da Costa, cited in Fauvet, "Elections: How Serious Was Vote Tampering?" 2.
21. Hanlon, "Landslide Victory," 6.
22. Robert J. Groelsma, J. Michael Turner, and Carlos Shenga, "Mozambique Democracy and Governance Assessment," prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development, February 2008.
23. Robert Mattes and Carlos Shenga, "'Uncritical Citizenship' in a 'Low-Information' Society: Mozambicans in Comparative Perspective," Afrobarometer Working Paper 91, December 2007, 38; available at www.afrobarometer.org/papers/AfropaperNo91.pdf.