Elvino Dias, a lawyer, was assassinated with Paulo Guambe, a Podemos candidate who supported Venancio Mondlane for president.
Venancio Mondlane, the front-runner of the opposition in Mozambique’s October 9 presidential campaign, lost his lawyer in a shooting on Saturday in Maputo.
Elvino Dias, the attorney, and Paulo Guambe, the Podemos party candidate who supported Mondlane, were both assassinated. Witnesses claimed that when their automobile was stationary on a route in the middle of the capital, two shooters opened fire.
Albino Forquilha, the head of Podemos, confirmed the murders to AFP, and the National Lawyers Association voiced “deep shock” over Dias’s passing.
Mais Integridade, a civil society observation group, described the deaths of the “repugnant” as a “act of intimidation” that undermines democracy.
Although they did not immediately reveal the identities of the two individuals who died, police stated that an inquiry had been launched.
Mozambique is awaiting the official national election results. October 24 is when they are supposed to be published.
Nearly immediately following election day, Mondlane, who put up a fight against the Frelimo party, which has ruled Mozambique since the country’s independence 49 years ago, declared victory.
As Frelimo claims to be ahead in the vote counts, he has accused electoral fraud and called for protests on Monday.
