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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rachel Savage Southern Africa correspondent

Mozambique ruling party likely to win elections despite dissatisfied youth

Daniel Chapo flanked by female supporters dressed in red
Daniel Chapo, centre, was relatively unknown until being picked as the ruling party’s presidential candidate in May. Photograph: Carlos Uqueio/AP

Mozambicans go to the polls on Wednesday in elections that the ruling Frelimo party is expected to win easily, even as an outsider candidate is shaking up the presidential race and winning over young voters in a country where the median age is just 17.

Frelimo has ruled the southern African country since the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1975. For the first time, it is fielding a presidential candidate born after independence, Daniel Chapo, a provincial governor who was relatively unknown until being picked in May as the candidate to succeed the outgoing president, Filipe Nyusi.

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