Representação da responsabilização política em Moçambique num contexto de sistema eleitoral de listas fechadas: 2009-2014

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the representation and political accountability in Mozambique, explaining the effects of the electoral system of closed lists under the rendering of accounts between the deputies and the voter and under the vote. In this perspective, through accountability mechanisms (information, explanation and justification), this paper analyzes the mechanisms used by deputies to report to the electorate on the decisions taken and the laws passed, while analyzing the mechanisms used by the voters to monitor, sanction or reward deputies specifically, being in a closed list system where the voter cannot use the vote as an accountability mechanism. This time, in a system of closed lists supported by a party that has symbolic recognition by the citizens, the voter who does not have enough information to monitor, sanction or reward deputies, who, on the other hand, are more dependent on the party to their maintenance on the vote's list, tend to use the vote as a mechanism for party identification.