No dia 20 de novembro, o Grupo de Investigação SPARC organiza o lançamento do livro On Electoral Integrity in Angola and Mozambique. Analysis of questionnaires applied to voters of Angola (2022 elections) and Mozambique (2019 elections), com os autores Nuno Vidal (PPGHIS/UFRJ & DRI/Open University) e Jaime Seixas Fonseca (ISCSP – Universidade de Lisboa). A partir das 14h30, na Sala 1 do ICS-ULisboa e online.

This book is the most recent output of the research project “Pluralism: Democratization and Electoral Integrity in Angola and Mozambique – P-DEIAM (www.pdeiam.com)”; it results from field research conducted in Angola and Mozambique concerning the assessment of voters’ perceptions on electoral integrity and its impact on democratization and security, focusing on Angolan 2022 legislative/presidential elections & Mozambican 2019 general/presidential elections. The book comprises the treatment and analysis of 2911 questionnaires applied by the project in all the 18 provinces of Angola and 2047 questionnaires applied in all the 11 provinces of Mozambique.

Almost three decades of so-called transition to liberal multiparty democracies in both countries, the questionnaires reveal that a good part of the electorate has a negative perception on electoral integrity. There are several distortions in electoral processes as a whole: lack of freedom/security in electoral campaigns, lack of objective conditions to vote for several voters, lack of information for voters on several stages of the electoral processes, political disbelief on, and suspicion of political partiality by, several electoral and State institutions related to the electoral processes: electoral management bodies, judiciary system, State and government institutions, electoral malpractices, lawfare, and fraud.

Among several other issues, we must stress that these post-electoral questionnaires in both countries revealed significant discrepancies between official electoral results and results assessed in these questionnaires, as provided by respondent voters. 

The persistence of such perceptions on the lack of integrity of electoral processes and the realities upon which they are formed and sustained, negatively contribute to democratization, political pluralism and socio-political security in both countries. It also becomes clear from the questionnaires that gender issues require serious attention in electoral processes.

Nuno Fragoso Vidal, researcher and coordinator of the project P-DEIAM (Pluralism: Democratization and Electoral Integrity in Angola and Mozambique, www.pdeiam.com), specialized in politics in Southern Africa, focus in Angola and Mozambique, Prof. at PPGHIS/UFRJ & DRI/Open University.  

Jaime Seixas Fonseca, researcher of the project  P-DEIAM (Pluralism: Democratization and Electoral Integrity in Angola and Mozambique, www.pdeiam.com), specialized in statistics and probabilities - Multivariate cluster analysis, Jubilee Prof. of ISCSP.