Mozambique’s Constitutional Council has officially set Daniel Chapo’s inauguration for January 15th 2025, in a period marked by the biggest challenge to the election results since 1994.
The Mozambican Constitutional Council (CC) officially set 15 January as the date for the inauguration of the new Mozambican President, who will succeed Filipe Nyusi, according to a resolution distributed by the body.
On 23 December, the CC, the final court of appeal in electoral disputes, proclaimed Daniel Chapo, the candidate supported by the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo), as the winner of the election for Mozambican President, with 65.17% of the votes, succeeding Filipe Nyusi in office, as well as the victory of Frelimo, which retained its parliamentary majority, in the general elections on 9 October.
Daniel Chapo, touted by Frelimo as a ‘young proposal’ and who will be the first head of state born after independence, will take over the Mozambican presidency in the year in which the country marks 50 years of independence, a period marked in the meantime by the biggest challenge to the electoral results since the first elections in 1994.
