Mozambique starts training polling station staff

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Training of polling station staff for this year's Mozambican general elections started on Friday, according to the National Elections Commission (CNE) on Friday.

The spokesperson for the State Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE), Lucas Jose, told Xinhua that the secretariat is to train a total of 130,000 polling station staff for the exercise.

Jose said that the first group, consisting of 60,000 will start training on Friday and will conclude on September 28.

According to him, the second group will be trained from September 30 until October 9.

Under the revised law, the three parties in the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, can each name one member to each of the more than 17,000 polling stations nationwide.

Additional four members will be chosen by the normal public competition. STAE will send the polling station staff to remote areas by using helicopters, according to the spokesperson for the CNE, Paulo Cuinica.

There will be 17,199 polling stations in the country for the upcoming elections, and the chairperson for the National Elections Commission, Sheikh Abdul Carimo, on Thursday urged all political parties and voters to halt violent incidents that have characterized the election campaign in recent days.

The campaign kicked off on August 31, and for the first week it was fairly peaceful.

But, in a statement broadcast to the nation on Thursday, the CNE boss admitted that violence has been on the increase.

He did not name any political party in particular, but the most serious incidents reported in the local media have been the attacks by supporters of the ruling party Frelimo against members and premises of the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement. Endi

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