Chakwera says Malawi courts ‘fair and independent’ unlike the Tippex Electoral Commission

June 10, 2019 Wanga Gwede - Nyasa Times 52 Comments

Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Lazarus Chakwera has expressed hope in that the judiciary can demonstrate its independence in the court case, in which he us  praying for the nullification of the results  from the presidential race of the May 21 Tripartite Elections.

Chakwera (2ndL) stresses a point during the press briefing

Chakwera, who came second in the May 21 polls and is disputing results saying that they were rigged,  made the sentiments yesterday when he addressed the media at the party’s headquarters in Lilongwe alongside People’s Party (PP) and Freedom Party (FP) officials.

He said the party was pursuing the elections matter in court because “the Judiciary is fair and independent, unlike our Electoral Commission.”

Chakwera, who also came second in the 2014 elections, said the party would continue to use peaceful and lawful means to stand up for justice for all Malawians.

But  President Peter Mutharika told Malawians that Chakwera, who joined forces with PP in last month’s elections run up, is mobilising party supporters in a political unrest

Chakwera has distanced himself from claims instead he has accused President Mutharika of the same for letting police to use excessive force on unarmed protesters.

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52 replies on “Chakwera says Malawi courts ‘fair and independent’ unlike the Tippex Electoral Commission”

  2. HAHAHAHA all those that are completely brainwashed and are having energy to support these thieves to destroy the future of their kids. Mano mbeee kukerera ookubera ndalama. Mbuli zachabe chabe . You are used to receiving relief from WFP,CARE ,Umphawi thoo kusowa polima nkati njala ndiye kwawo every year in year out.

  4. Kikiki oChakwera: you praise the Court today alright. But you will be crucifying them when they decide NOT in your favor. So, your comments are not worth the breath.
    Rule of thumb is for politicians not to comment on cases that are in Court. Baasi.

    1. If the court will do that then,who is fooling who?that will conclude our Idiocy as mwians,even the Peter thing also said the elections were rigged.

  5. Chakwera should have kept quiet on this matter. Kuchepa nzeru kumeneku. The court may rule against him with this kind of kindergarten comments. Kupembedza ma court kumeneku. Keep quiet Lazaro.

    1. Ati kuwanyengelera kuti agamure in his favour. Too childish abusa. Not surprised Mia wazidomoka

  6. O Chakwera, why isn’t Chilima with you at this press conference. The courts asked you, MCP and UTM, to merge your cases. This means, you should be sharing notes. What else do you want the courts to teach you? Dunderheads. Do you people have advisers with brains? Mukufuna a court achite kumakuimbirani ma phone. Akagamula zosagwirizana ndi a MCP, koma a UTM ndi kulola mutani? Please talk with your advisers. Mwina nao atopa ndikukulangizani. Zimatopetsatu ukakhala kuti ukulangiza osamva. And, by the way, phokoso lonseli mukuopa MCP yanu yomweyo. If you have to follow the M+CP constoitution, it’s the end of Chakwera. Ena ali ready kale to take over as MCP Leader. Msowoya munamukana akanakupatsani votes from the whole north. Koma dyera. Bola mwalemera bwana. Mubwerere ku church.

  7. By just reading some comments here, it has proved that we have only very few people in Malawi plus idiots, if election we had on 21 May is the story we are taking our powers to write many things against the truth here, then idiots are many than people in this country. I have realize that idiots can choose the President.

    1. kkkkkk who are you then? Let the idiots rule you. kkkkkkk wina akulira chaka chake nchino.

    3. It seems it’s you who is a goat even Mutharika made a claim at Njamba that elections were rigged. APM, SCK and Chakwera all agree elections were rigged.

  9. Palibe chomwe akulunkhula apa a Chakwerawa gemu idalakwa idalakwa basi palibenso chomwe angaphulepo apa akakhala a MEC ndimajajinso pawokha sangachititsidwe manyazi ndi anzawo never

  10. When he led by 9000 votes he said MEC was cool. Now if the same courts rule otherwise, he will say they are compromised

  11. I have always said Chakwera is a very weak leader for MCP and nobody wants to listen at this rate MCP will always be in opposition

    2. Honestly,are you a fool Malawian or foregner?I feel pitty with your thinking brains.How do you support such kind of elections and president.Together with your president,you are all educated fools

    3. Yes a very cruel group of people who will not progress our country but put us in chaos! we have no time to be fighting! we want development! kagwereni uno a Chakwera! munayesera soma zakukanikani!

    2. Yes I agree I have tried to vote MCP into government but alas! I always get disappointed.Kwawokwawo gule kwawokwawo

  14. Mkaka looks wotuwa. All those smiled by Chakwera with makanja have suddenly vanished. Were they fake like his accent? Get lost ex-reverend.

  15. Mia akuinera patali. Wait a minute you will hear he has joined the DPP. he knows that there is no future in MCP even if he takes over as MCP leader in 2024. Paja Chakwera sakaimiranso u president in 2024 according to MCP constitution

  16. MCP has an uphill task to convince the court to annul a presidential election result because the post judgement events may be catastrophic. The court has to be convinced beyond reasonable doubt that:
    a) if MEC handled the elections professionally it would have a different outcome,
    b) DPP interfered with MEC results and officials to change the outcome of the elections, and
    c) the contested results have been interfered with so much so that if recounted it will achieve same results.
    Failure to prove this beyond reasonable doubt the then the case has to thrown out as soon as possible by using preliminary indicative evidence. Doctrine of Necessity must be used.
    If the courts annul the results the economic, constitutional and political crisis can be quite devastating. Take for example if Chakwera was declared winner and DPP managed to have the results overturned thereby by default APM and SKC returned to power what would have happed? Violence of course. Even now if courts annuls the election results what will happen to SKC and Chimulirenji? Having been sworn-in DPP will contend that Chimulirenji can only be removed by Parliament impeachment proceedings.
    On the issue of tipex let me advise my fellow Malawians that tipex is just a correction fluid and its use does not remove the legality of any document unless it is clearly indicated that the document has to be issued without any alternations. Suppose on say passport application form i write over tipex my real birth date all what the officials will do is to verify against NRB or DRTSS identities.
    The country is slowly returning to normal tiyeni tiiwale izi and focus on development. Tisachite kuziputa daladala zinthu zinazi. Chonde aMalawi.

    1. do you want to pre empty thec judges decisions my Friend do you know gravity of using TIp-x on any sensitive document. do not comment on matters that you are not familiar with let us wait for the courts decision.

    2. Osangokhala chete bwanji m’malo moonetsa umbuli wakowo ku gulu like this! Are you a Lawyer yourself? Awansoooooooo!! Ask APM, he will tell you that it is possible here in Malawi and the constitution allows it. APM knows that what has happened in Malawi happened in Kenya in 2017. Five supreme court judges just like the one Chief Justice Nyirenda has appointed in Kenya annulled an election held in August 2017 due to procedural irregularities and these were similar to the “MEC Tippexed Results”. Iweyo sukudziwa kuti the the Kenyan presidential election was won by the incumbent, Uhuru Kenyatta, just as was the case here in Malawi, and Kenyatta’s was by a margin of nine percentage points not a mere Chakwera’s three percent.

      Inunso nde kayatu………………………. dikani madzi apite ndiye muziti tadalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

      1. In Kenya it is constitutionary indicated that they use both electronic and manual tallying. Their elections body only used the fraud susceptible electronic tallying to announce the winner before even the manual tallying was finished to do the verification!
        That to me indeed warranted a re-run

      2. @Central:
        So, the pertinent question to your point about Uhuru’s election being annulled is: How come he’s still the President today?
        Next time, please take your argument to the logical conclusion, will you?

        Apparently MCP are borrowing a page from Odinga’s page in those Kenyan elections; when violent demos followed. Is your oChakwera also planning to take a page out of Odinga, and get sworn in as the so-called “People’s President”, if the Court rule against the petitioners, MCP/UTM?
        Tell us. And also tell us how that worked out for Odinga.

    3. Do you know what beyond reasonable doubt means. If people were caught with pre-marked ballot for the DPP candidate, what other evidence do you need that there was fraud. If people changed figures with tippex, what other evidence do you need. if the unknow MEC official can deliberately transfer the name of one presidential candidate to Likoma. There are many examples we can cite to show that these elections were not credible.

    5. Its fools like you to think and support DPP the they claim they won the elections but a well patriotic Malawian can not support this

    6. And, if the elections are annulled, it will involve parliamentary candidates as well. Why? It was the same election process. Ndiye azalola anyamat andi atsikana olowalowa ku parliament kuti ziyambirenso. Nang ma ward councilors. Kuli ntchito.

    7. @Che Wanimiliyon:
      Someone is thinking, and that is you!
      Not just parroting “Tippex, Tippex…” chani apa.
      The Law is a complicated beast, abale. And the Judges do not necessarily think in straight lines, like most of the MCP/UTM commentators.

  18. Slowly but surely you are losing your credibility, respect and dignity abusa. Kusuluka paint pachokopachoko. Tiyeni tivomereze we missed the target this time also, though slightly. In fact tinayambila kulakwa mayeso 1993, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014 and this time also because when many Malawians see or hear about MCP, they are reminded of the dark ages, Kamuzu and his inhumane cruelty (apart from some in central region). We know you are desperate abusa, kuyesesa kutenga mphaka ‘mia-mia-mia”, kuyesesa kukwera abiti mtila koma ataaa. We also know that you are power hungry sir. One last thing, MCP and you Yona Chakwera must never think that Malawi is Lilongwe and Lilongwe is Malawi. Just because Lilongwe voted for MCP (500,000 Votes) does not necessarily mean that you won the elections. Truth though painful. Malawi is made up of 27 districts. So stop whining you lost, and to borrow Trump’s words, Yona Chakwera you are a “stone cold loser” full stop.

    1. The national referendum took place in 1993. People were asked to choose either to remain a one party state or revert to multiparty democracy. At that time Malawi was crime free of these ordinary offences except “political offences” for which one could be arrested. But over the years crime has soared. Talk about fraud, talk about corruption, money laudering, albino killings …

  20. One of the most important thing in the court is to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused did not commit a crime. Can Jane and her Electoral Commission prove beyond a reasonable doubt that fraud was not committed in these elections when some polling staff were caught t with pre-marked for the DPP candidate when the results have tippex all over? This is a test for our democracy and our judicial system. Are they going to legitimize fraud? Let us wait and see.

  21. LERO LIMENELO. When it does not go to your favour ndiye kuwatukwana Men of the Bench. I thought it is the same Court that lifted the injunction. Mumawatukana. Lero? KOMA ABUSA INU ndagoma nanu. Mumasochelesa wanthu zedi.

    2. Kkkkk, yalakwa. Kugawana zida kwa band basi. Posachedwapa timva kuti Mia ali mu cabinet ya Peter. Just watch on

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