Eleições e comportamento eleitoral em Moçambique: mudança na tendência de voto nas eleições autárquicas no município da Matola-2018

Abstract

Since the municipal elections from 1998 to 2013, the Frelimo party has won elections consistently successive showing an absolute majority when compared to the opposition, but, specifically in the 2018 elections, the party won the elections by a minimal margin, thus presenting a phenomenon that did not occur in previous elections. It is at this level that the present work, trying to identify the factors that influenced the change in the voting trend at of the municipality of Matola. The starting point was the hypothesis that non-compliance with the governance program influences the tendency of vote. The level of municipal management and the recurrent failure to fulfill electoral promises frustrated Matola voters by making them cast a punitive vote against the incumbent party.