How is the national electoral register created?
Mozambique
Law nr. 5/2013, of the 22nd February
Article 7
1. Voter registration is valid for each electoral cycle.
2. Voter registration is updated in the years when elections are held.
3. Whenever the holding of extraordinary elections is justified, the validity of the registration mentioned in paragraph 1 of this article shall be extended.
Article 19
1.The period for updating the voter registration occurs within the six months subsequent to the fixing of the election date.
EISA Election Observer Mission Report : Presidential, Parliamentary and Provincial Elections of 28 October 2009, P9.
The first voter registration exercise was followed by voters’ roll update in 1997 in preparation for the first municipal elections held in 1998.
Telephone conversation with EMB official:
Paulo Cuinica
Commissioner
Comiss?o Nacional de Elei??es
Method adopted in 1997. The voters' roll is updated during each election year by STAE under supervision of CNE. The Technical Secretariat for the Administration of Elections (STAE) acts as the executive arm of the CNE. The STAE is responsible for the organisation and logistics of voter registration and the conducting of elections and referenda. In the execution of its mission the STAE is answerable only to the CNE and is explicitly subordinated to it.
