STAE confident about holding municipal elections next year

The deputy director general of the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration (STAE), Estevão Fernandes, says there are signs that the budget deficit for holding the municipal elections next year could be overcome shortly.

 Estevão Fernandes says that the government and partners are committed to mobilizing the missing amount of 1.9 billion.

 “From the budget that the electoral bodies had presented to the government, which was 3.2 billion, there was a deficit, until very recently, of 1.9 billion. This amount will be disbursed very soon, in a process that is being dealt with at the level of the Ministry of Economy and Finance”, he said.

The Deputy Director General of the Technical Secretariat for Electoral Administration was speaking this Friday in the city of Beira, in Sofala, at the inauguration of new deputy provincial directors and heads of STAE departments.

 Regarding the voter registration process, whose process is scheduled for February next year, the Deputy Director General of STAE assured that everything had been taken care of. (RM)