Chakwera joins Chilima to snub EU over fresh Malawi elections observer report

Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has joined his UTM Party counterpart Saulos Chilima in declining a proposed meeting with a visiting EU Elections Observer Mission which is due to arrive in the country Wednesday.

Chakwera has refused to meet a European Union (EU) Election Observer Mission (EOM) and asked the team to delay presentation of its final report on the disputed May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections.

The party’s Secretary General Eisenhower Mkaka has confirmed, saying the party has communicated its position to EU Mission in Lilongwe.

Earlier, MCP said it received an invitation to attend the meeting and will honour it.

However, Mkaka said MCP has reservations with the timing of the meeting and that Chakwera like Chilima will not be party to it.

“Dr Chakwera will not be attending the meeting, the EU could have presented their final report  before the elections case,” he said.

EU Deputy Head of Mission Aurelie Valtat, who is also head of the political and media office, said the arrival of the mission was normal and routine.

Valtat said it is  a “standard return mission” and that it is “not unique to Malawi.”

The EU EOM had 83 observers at 342 polling stations across 120 of the country’s 193 parliamentary constituencies in 27 of the 28 districts during the elections.

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Medson
Medson
4 years ago

Kkkkk Chakwera is Runed by Chilima, whatsoever chilima has said Chakwera is following.
Can we say UTM is a team A of MCP or mcp is a team B of UTM.

Mcp yikunthatu Chilima utm is gaining momentum.

KAM'MAYANI
KAM'MAYANI
4 years ago

Some of the comments here just show how divided the opposition will be if the court orders rerun.

ANZENGO
ANZENGO
4 years ago

KEEP YOUR EUROPE TO YOURSELF N WE WILL KEEP MALAWI TO OURSELVES. TI’S WHERE WE BELONG. IF WE DIE OUR DEAD BODIES ARE NEITHER FLOWN TO EUROPE NOR BURIED IN EUROPE BECOZ WE BELONG TO MALAWI. JOHN CHILEMBWE DENOUNCED THIS NOSE POKING IN OUR LAND BY EU DECADES AGO. ONE DAY, SOMEDAY MALAWIANS WILL BE LIBERATED. AS FOR NOW THE FUTURE OF MALAWI AWAITS DETERMINATION FROM THE CONCOURT.

wa Nyau
wa Nyau
4 years ago

kkkkkkkkkkkkk it seems o CHAKWERA amangobela zomwe wapanga CHILIMA.mulandu wa zisankho O CHAKWERA amkati akufuna ma vote awelengedweso pomwe Chilima amkati zisankho sizinayende bwino tiponyeso.
Kenako OCHAKWERA anasintha maganizo owerengaso kutengera SCK kuti kukhale re run.
Dzana OCHAKWERA anavomela kukumana ndi EU ,pano aona CHILIMA wakana nawoso akuti sakumana ndi EU kkk ma Guy a MCP muli serious koma?
inutu mulibe mtsogoleri sure

Mkamwini mwini
4 years ago

Chilima 1 ,Chakwela 2

Copycat
Copycat
4 years ago

Copycat uyu! And yet he wants to be Malawi‘a President. My foot

John Gray Gufa
John Gray Gufa
4 years ago

Mufunseni Mtambo zimenezi. Papa iye amakonda kukanena kwa azungu eg kungomunena chabe kuti ndi terrorist

Mr Truth Pains
4 years ago

We have our own standard and not your borrowed standard. We don’t need u Europeans to lead us, we are capable to solve our own problems and stay away from this case.

Europeans are the very people causing havoc around the world, u created an Endless war in DRC bcoz u want to get minerals for free.

DRC is rich in minerals for making Cars, Batteries , computers and Cell phone and Gold but u Europeans have managed to cause no peace in that country the plan behind it is to smuggle these minerals.

Malangalanga
4 years ago

Munya muoona agwape inu.let them come to testify on their part. Why are you afraid. Mitu ngati matako a bakha . Maso ngati mbeu ya nansongole. Pakamwa ngati m’mimba mwachule. Mwationongesera ma business Inu mukukhala nyumba zabwino ndi security, kukwela magalimoto opuma ife kumapha nyerere wapansi kupita ku nchesi ndi malingunde,katoto ,kawale. Tsiku la 40 likubwera,tibwezera nkhanza zanu zoipa. Muthawiretu kupita ku mpanyila.

Mzee
Mzee
4 years ago
Reply to  Malangalanga

I hv never seen adull person in ma lyf like u,do u want us just sit and watch wen things r wrong? Umbuli wakowo khala nawo kapena ngati ukudya nawo mata pakamwa ponukhapo usatinyasepo.

Chiswa B
Chiswa B
4 years ago

Kodi chipani chakuphachi why so indecisive? Its appears to be following UTM all the time.

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