MAPUTO, Mozambique — Gunmen chased down the lawyer for Mozambique’s main opposition politician and a senior opposition official and fatally shot them of their automobile within the capital, their get together stated Saturday.
This comes because the nation waits for the outcomes of a tense election that has drawn extra allegations of vote rigging and clamping down on dissent in opposition to the long-ruling governing get together.
Elvino Dias, a lawyer and advisor to opposition presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, was killed late Friday night time by gunmen in two autos who riddled his automobile with bullets on a principal avenue within the metropolis of Maputo, the PODEMOS opposition get together stated.
Paulo Guambe, a senior member and the spokesperson for PODEMOS, additionally was within the automobile with Dias and died within the taking pictures, the get together stated in an announcement.
The killings are “additional clear proof of the dearth of justice that we’re all subjected to,” PODEMOS stated.
PODEMOS is a comparatively new opposition get together that challenged the 49-year rule of the Entrance for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) get together within the Oct. 9 election. Though Mondlane ran for president as an unbiased, he was supported by PODEMOS. Mondlane, PODEMOS and different opposition events have accused Frelimo of electoral fraud and rigging the election.
Frelimo candidate Daniel Chapo holds a transparent lead within the presidential race, in accordance with preliminary outcomes. The ultimate election outcomes are on account of be introduced subsequent week. Chapo is predicted to be introduced because the winner to succeed President Filipe Nyusi, who has served a most of two phrases.
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