Governação eleitoral e democratização em Moçambique: análise do desempenho da CNE na supervisão das eleições (1994-2009)

Abstract

The Mozambican democratization process is recent, making Mozambique fall into the group of countries of the third wave of democratization theorized by Huntigton (1991). The Mozambican transition process was marked by a logic of resolving the armed conflict between two belligerent forces, Frelimo and Renamo. In any democracy, there are rules for administering the electoral process that are completely institutionalized, however compliance with them, from the form of approval of the electoral package responsible for governing the elections to the way in which the electoral legislation is interpreted and the results it produces, constitute elements of reflection in this study. The approval of the 1990 Constitution and the 1992 AGP made it possible to hold elections in the country, introducing multiparty democracy. However, electoral processes have been marked by distrust in the mechanisms established for the choice and composition of the CNE. This work intends to understand to what extent the criteria for the constitution of the CNE determine the ways of functioning and therefore the result produced by it for the consolidation process democratic.