Moçamedes- The Namibe Provincial Electoral Commission (CPE) denied this Sunday, in Moçâmedes City, information spread on social media about early voting in the locality of Caraculo.
This denial comes as a result of a video and audios circulating on social media with images of people with indelible ink on their fingers and an individual claiming to be carrying out early voting in the locality of Caraculo, Namibe Province.
According to the president of CPE Namibe, Desidéria Ndakupapo, the video released concerns the registration process of the beneficiaries of the cash transfer programme “Kwenda”.
The official addvanced that the CPE has been receiving the electoral material for the ballot on 24 August, which was not yet distributed to the polling stations.
“There is no early voting. The information does not correspond to the truth of the facts. At this point, we don't have any ballot papers in any of the polling stations, as we are receiving the material for the voting process”, said Desidéria Ndakupapo.
He said that it is underway the training of polling station members as well as the accreditation of the delegates of the eight competing parties.
On her turn, the provincial director of the Social Support Fund (FAS), Nayole Araújo stated that for more than a year, her organisation has been carrying out the registration process to deliver food and cash to vulnerable families, having already benefited the municipality of Virei and Bibala.
The official said that for this process, the family members who do not know how to sign the document, the government used the indelible ink with the aim of confirming the beneficiary identity in the system.
“This ink is a strategy that the FAS uses for the control of those who have already been registered, to avoid double registration”, she clarified.
Nayole Araújo regretted the fact that the video and audios are creating situations that are not very good for the electoral process that is taking place with the utmost transparency and smoothness”.
The Namibe Province has 264,711 registered voters who will exercise their right to vote in 524 polling stations in 263 voting tables.
