Ansah says handouts issue dominate elections ‘madando’
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says the issue of handouts during political campaign has dominated complaints on local government polls.
MEC chairperson Jane Ansah sad the pollster has directed those with the handouts complaints to the Registrar of Political Parties.
“Most of the complaints of the local government elections are related to Section 45 of the electoral laws which bans handouts.
“All complaints in this regard have been forwarded to the Registrar of Political Parties. This is the relevant body to prosecute the offence,” said Ansah.
She said the pollster 147 complaints for both parliamentary and local government.
Ansah said the results would be announced after all the complaints have been attended to.
In the parliamentary elections, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) got 62 members of Parliament (controlling 32 percent of the House), MCP got 55 members of Parliament (29 percent), United Democratic Front (UDF) got 10 members of Parliament (5 percent), UTM got four members of Parliament (2 percent), People’s Party (PP) got 5 seats (3 percent), Aford got one, with the remaining 55 seats taken by independents.
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My Fellow Malawians, let MEC do their work…. as far as am concerned if Chakwera wins elections, in 2 or 3 years of His leadership you
ll start complaining, not that Hell be a bad president but because that`s what you are (complaining on each and every president who comes in power).. same applies to Chilima or Peter.. lather we change the president but not the party… if Peter wins, let him be president untill DPP choose another president which we must vote for..ambuye muchiphere mayi ayu akuthandiza kubera ma ansa a mavoti. Ameniii
Mayi Ansah, zomwe mukuchita, dziwani kuti kuli Mulungu. Ndalama zingachuluke bwanji koma moyo umadzatha. This will be a curse to your family. Mark my word!
ngakhale akuyesesa kupondereza chowonadi ndi kuziwa YEHOVA wanga salephera CHAKWERA AKHALA PRESIDENT
I have followed all the post pollday pressers Jane Ansah has been having including the yesterday one and her sincerity and consistency in her reasoning and presentation makes me doubt she has rigged the election in favour of DPP. The way i see her if she was under any pressure she could have resigned. The media is the ones to blame if this country is to be engulfed in violence. All the mainline media apart from MBC are of the opinion that DPP has lost but clinging to power and not MCP has lost but want to be declared a… Read more »