O papel dos manifestos na mobilização do eleitorado nas eleições autárquicas de 2013 e 2018 (Cidade de Maputo): uma análise a partir da Frelimo, Renamo e MDM

Abstract

The Rome agreement, by establishing peace and the rules for incorporating Renamo into society Mozambique, meant the practical possibility of applying the new principles constitutional provisions, namely the holding of multiparty elections and, in this sense, it was advancing in an unprecedented process, towards the possibility of building a pluralistic democratic society. However, the fact that the negotiations and the transition process politics until the elections were conducted solely by the two warring parties, each of them concerned with ensuring maximum benefits for themselves, also meant a polarization of the nascent political space around them. Contrary to what was happening at the national level, where the electoral outcome revolved around of the two parties (Renamo and Frelimo), the municipalities have experienced a growth in electoral participation and political competition, having been the scene of the first alternations in local governance. It was also there where a new party was born and established itself, the Movimento Democratic Party of Mozambique (MDM), which quickly became the third political force. At both a national and local level, the lack of seriousness of the political parties in fulfilling their promises, thus increasing the lack of interest of voters by electoral manifestos in order to influence their vote.(Tradução nossa)