Constitutional court meets legal teams over Malawi elections case
A five-judge panel of the Constitutional Court is this Friday meeting the legal team of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), UTM as well as Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) and President Peter Mutharika over the election case.
High Court registrar Agnes Patemba said the court wants to meet the appellants and respondents in the case to chart the way forward.
“The Constitutional Court is now starting hearing case on Friday, 14 June but just want to meet the appellants and respondents of the case,” said Patemba.
She said the court has since told MCP and UTM lawyers to hand-over case files to MEC and President Mutharika’s legal team before the Friday meeting.
MCP president Lazarus Chakwera and UTM leader Saulos Chilima are challenging the May 21 highly contentious tripartite election, saying MEC officials deliberately manipulated the votes in favour of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate, Mutharika.
MEC denies any wrong doing but Mutharika said his votes were also rigged in the central region.
Patemba said the court would set the date for the commencement of the hearing of the case after meeting all the parties involved in the case.
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ALL WHAT THE COURT IS DOING TO MALAWIANS, JUST TO DECEIVE THEM OTHERWISE THEY ALREADY ENTERED A DEAL WITH MEC.
You guys Munthalika is playing with your minds , you don’t know him
At first you forecast on tippex now your forecast is in Munthalika words , if he said i don’t have evident i was joking with my supporters . What you should know is judges will need evident from Munthalika beyond reasonable doubts that centre region votes for DPP was stolen .
This shows that what you guys your saying you don’t have evident , today tippex ,tomorrow muntharika was saying that the election was not free and fair.
The guy is smart his playing with you take it or leave it you will not win this case
This is some journalist report and not what you talking about. What are you smoking over there?
UTM and MCP lawyers, please gather enough evidence for the case. Don’t rush. You have a good case, but valid and substantive evidence is very key. Continue looking for more evidence. There are some centers here in the South where voting continued after polls had closed. Returning officers marked the ballot papers after everyone, including, monitors was gone. We hear there was massive rigging in Mwanza.
We know that you accomplished lawyers but you never know there could be Judas among you. So, be vigilant; carefully analyze the ideas coming from your team members. Its possible there is one working for the devil among you (I am not saying there is one). The future of our country, children and grand children is very much depending on the outcome of this case.
On point King Man
UTM lost the elections because they were busy tapping phone calls kuti mawa akanena chani pa mnsokhano forget that anzawo anali busy on the ground
kkkkkkkk APM has accepted that the elections were not fair and free what else do the judges want now
mwauponda because APM sanapereke madando ku MEC or court so what he said will not have an impact on the court ruling
Pitala Wanyachula ponena Kuti naye anabeledwa,he betrayed a MEC…Mulungu aktimenyela nkhondo
Owowo mwatelo ndinu but hi is a professor of Law ndi ameneso anapanga book lamalamu Malawi la democalase
Koma inu a Court dziwani kuti a Malawi mukuwaseweretsawa mtima mwawo muli Mulungu ndipo akuona ndiye mizidziwa kuti kusewera timasewera ndimpira osati Mulungu ikudza nthawi mudzalira ovutika mukumuseweretsayu adzakhala pamwamba inu mudzaonekera pansi paiyeyu ili ndi dziko
Koma Zimafunika kuti Peter naye akapereke MADANDO ake chifukwa wadandaula kuti naye adaberedwa pa Central Region,kwaodandaulafe zatisangalatsa kuti naye wabwera poyera kuti alipo sipake ndipo ngosayenera kukhalapo chifukwa wayamba kupamva kutentha pakumuyabwa ndi MADANDO aa Malawi
Good development. We are trailing the phone calls and movements of the selected judges to see who they are meeting so that they are not influenced by bribes. We know already of one judge among the five , not Potato, who is contemplating recusing self because of not being comfortable with the approach made by some quarters. Our eyes are open and we are serious and hungry for justice!
phokoso lonseli zoona simunapeleke ma case files?
Be aware that courts are procedural as such MCP and UTM would only act on instruction from the court and not anyhow.
We want transparency. Unless the our judicial system becomes another Tippex
14 June, the day on which this case will begins is a very important day in the history of our democracy
May I request the MCP and UTM legal teams to seriously consider re-looking at Kampondeni’s election analysis that reads as follows:
I have been recounting the MEC official results on my own but am failing to get answers to the below questions. I therefore ask you to post on your wall so that my fellow Malawians should help me in getting the answers:
The updates of results at 75% , APM had amassed 1.4 million votes, Chakwera had 1.2 million and finally SKC had 600,000 votes.
After the court injunction was lifted, and results were at 100%, our Madam Chair came and gave us the final results.
What I find striking was that all they did was add 500,000 votes to each candidate!
APM 1.4+500 = 1.9 million
LC 1.2+500 = 1.7 million
and SKC 600+500 = 1.1 million
Now the question is: Was there no competition in the remaining 25% of the centres? All candidates got the same number of votes from the last centres? Really?
Maybe UTM and MCP lawyers might also want to analyse the below figures and Malawians can also help explain the discrepancy between the results announced by MCP Independent Tabulation Vote on Times TV and MEC.
MCP: Chakwera 2 122 606
Mutharika 1 945 173
Saulos 1 044 978
Other candindates Nil results announced.
Total for 3 candidates K 5 087 947
MEC : Chakwera 1 781 740
Mutharika 1940 709
Saulos 1 018 978
Atupele 235 164
Other 54 173
Spoilt votes ( 74 719)
Total votes cast 5 105 983
Total valid votes 5 031 264.
From the above MEC results one can see that Mutharika actually scored 4000 less than what MCPs Indepedent Tabulation gave him . The results by MCP for Mutharika and Saulos are close to MECs results for both candindates. In their tabulation and greediness to win MCP left the results for other candidates and spoilt votes approximately 364000.which if removed from Chakweras figure would give him approx
1759 000 compared to MECs 1781 740.00
That having been said,so how did Mutharika rig if his results announced by MEC are less than what MCP independent tabulation scored for him
The only discrepancy in both results are that MCP left out the other candidates figure giving a total of votes cast for three candidates to 5087947 compared to MECs 5 031 264 for all candidates. So who wants to rig here. So who actually used tippex here. Figures dont lie. Who is fooling who.
Good analysis. The figures does not give sense at all.
What you should know is that Kampondeni is not MEC or a computer he can make mistakes even try to us his figures in court you can not win
Central, infact central had 589 centers to be counted,north had 277 and south hadn’y 309 centers
olemba nkhani pewani phuma. news panopa zikumachuluka ma error
NGATI PITALA WAVOMERA KUTI ZISANKHO ZINABEREDWA SO WHY WAISTING TIME AND RESOURCES. VOTE AGAIN MALAWI BASI SO THAT IT SHOULD BE FAIR TO EVERYONE
pitala zikumukhuza bwanji?iyeso analengeza nawo ma results?mesa ma results amalengeza ndi a MEC…Zikudabwitsatu kwambiri chifukwa ngakhale muja MCP inatenga injuction yoti asauluze ma results a MEC dpp inabweletsa mulu wamaloya?ndiye kuti dpp ndi MEC akugwilira office yimodzi?komaso pitala apezekamo bwanji?mukufuna kenaka mukapemphe court kuti khwashani mlandu chifukwa asumila munthu wolakwika popeza malamulo a dziko lino salola kusumila president….
It’s called an interested party.
Abalarika a president. Zakuba umabwetuka nazo. Mxii
I didn’t know that even the winner lodged his complaints that he was also robbed, this proves that this MEC is just useless, they didn’t do well. Then what we can do in shot is just to have fresh election and change the referees period!
By the way, in this matter I think it’s not proper for Muntharika to be called president, in this case, he need to be called Peter Muntharika not president, because he is a defendant, MEC is respondent while Mcp and UTM are plaintiffs, let’s follow it properly so let’s not be like we are all fools by eganging the title president so that it should not balance to handle this case, no one should be using his title what so ever, Don’t use the title Leader of Opposition meaning Chakwera and ex vice President meaning Chilima.
This case should be a neutral case where it’s all Malawians regardless who you are,
BUT THIS WOMAN CALLED ANUNSAL IS CRUEL LADY. SHE HAS CREATED WAR IN THIS COUNTRY. SOMEONE SAYS ALL 5 JUDGES ARE HER JUNIORS AND THEY CANNOT UPSET TABLES. OUR JUDICIARY TOO WEAK AND ADMIRE KENYAN JUDGES.
Progress.
Well development this is the only future of our country. MEC betrayed Malawians and undermines their rights to vote and did she MEC chair wants to Malawians not what Malawians. So therefore this country will be saved by the courts in history of our country clear out a mist of the name Malawi to foreign nations. Our name has been dirtied just by one devil by the name MEC Chair.
Even Muthrakia agrees the elections were rigged, now those of you who have maintained that these elections were credible what are you going to say if the one who was declared a winner in these elections agrees there was electoral fraud. Let us wait and see. This is a test for our judiciary.
Nyasa guys, you mean you could not find a better pic of Patemba?
What is wrong with pic. of Patemba?
leave it its okay