MEC appeals to Malawi Supreme Court on re-run in Mangochi West Constituency
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has appealed to the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal the case in which it was ordered by the High Court to conduct a re-run in Mangochi West Constituency.
According to MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa, the commission noticed that some facts and evidence might have not been considered in the case.
On December 20 2019, High Court Judge Sylvester Kalembera, ordered MEC to conduct the re-run in the constituency having what he described as irregularities and inconsistencies in the results.
Independent candidate Simeon Harrison challenged the parliamentary results following MEC’s declaration of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Geoffery Chiwondo as winner.
Ref uyu ndiodabwitsa ndithu. Why appealing on behalf of the candidate???????
Did MEC go to court or its the competing candidates.How would court get an appeal from a mare witness who was neither petitioner nor respondent????
MEC. Your job is to conduct elections. Akawuzani kuti mukapange zisankho inu mukukana. Ndiye mupange resign if you don’t want to do your job.
Its not a question of being ordered to conduct rerun but facts on the ground so if they find anything tangible they have the right to do so my friend.
MEC’s credibility to be neutral is questionable. This body needs an overhaul from theirs acts, commissioners, employees, and non established workers. The MEC body should be neutral to all all Malawians. What I see here is MEC affiliated organization. God help us court case should bring sanity to mother Malawi
A MEC adya ndalama zambiri za DPP, ndiye kujijirika konseku. Akuopa kuti auzidwa kubweza ndalama for a job not well done popeza azitafuna kale!!
How does a referee appeal against the decision of VAR? zoopsatu izi!
Partisan referee…
MEC appeal is in essence on behalf of dpp while the same MEC continues to ignore the pple of LL South who have now stayed for 8 mths without Parliamentary by-elections simply bcoz the constituency is heavily MCP.Brood of vipers…ur days are numbered!
Stupid MEC why appealing the case in stead of the looser? Stupid MEC ndinu agalu kobasi.
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SHAME MEC!!!!!
No MP was sued, it was MEC that was sued and it is appealing a judgement on a case that it lost, what’s is peculiar about that? Umbuli wa a Malawi umapwetekesa mutu pena
This looks like MEC is appealing on behalf of DPP. Which means MEC and DPP are one.
Do you know who was sued? Tell us who was the respondent in this case, otherwise I’ve never heard that anyone who is not part of litigation can appeal on behalf of the loser. Eish, a Malawiiii!
MEC appealing??? No!
who was the respondent in this case?
This MEC is a very shameful organization with stupid bunch of individual.On whose behalf are MEC appealing now?Why not the MP who lost the case?Do these MEC people think or they just woke up and decide something without reasoning?No wonder our elections were shambolic.
Mec as a respondent in the case had its independent legal team. Mec is appealing in the interest of justice. If the losing MP has no money or other inhibitions to proceed with the appeal this should not prevent justice to be done hence having convinced itself that there enough grounds for appeal Mec is legally mandated to proceed.
So whose interest are they appealing since you are showing us you know law than us?
This is what happens when you have interests in the matter.. what is in the heart is disposed through actions unknowingly..shame on them
PUTRID BLUE NIGGER,YOUR EYES CAN NOT SEE THE IMPEDING DANGER IN THE APPEAL BY THESE DPP CADETS IN THE COLORS OF MEC?
MEC why are you appealing to court as you were a Candidate this shows that some went wrong
Kodi woyenera kupanga appeal ndi ndani pakati pa MEC ndi the MP whose seat was declared vacant?
Sangwani mutu ngati mabo. Ngati pali mtumbuka ofoila ndiye iweyo
Why is MEC choosing sides?
why wasting money for nothing, zinazi ndi mbava zakuba, munthu ali ndi ngongole za anthu ambirimbiri, angofuna kukaba ku parliament enawa.
MEC of what interest is the nullification of this vote? You seem to be too much into defending what you are not supposed to defend this is the reason why you are not the right body to organize free and fair elections of any country in the world.
If was that in the first place the winner was this independent candidate and that the DPP candidate went to court and the court orders rerun, MEC would have not appealed because it would be in their favour. Shameful Jane Ansah’s MEC. If they are nuetral they should have just go ahead to conduct a rerun and not wasting time defending impunitive DPP.
Eish zoopsa komaso zochititsa manyazi. There no justice in Malawi.
I don’t understand this, why MEC appealing instead of a grieved person or loosing MP???
This is really an indication of MEC having sinister motives towards DPP. Here the referee does seem not to be neutral.
How can MEC justify this move of appealing this case. The loosing MP in court Case is the one to appeal, here it shows MEC want to cover their face.
MEC doesn’t know exactly what to do, it seems like MEC that conduct Elections 2019 it has full of drama and they have Mental problem and most of them are sick. They are not healthy, look Sangwani Mwafulirwa he seems like ARVs have damege his brain.
MEC has done what?????, how????? They keep messing up!
I tend to wonder if there were credible elections in Malawi bar 1994 only, i bet if the ruling in the presidential case is re-run or notification,dpp won’t appeal,mec will
Shame on this satanic organization.
Kodi azanga tandithandizeni apa ndindani oyenera kupanga apilu?Bungwe loyendetsa zitsakho kepena amene amati anawina?chifukwa bungwe loyendetsa zitsakho silingakhale lodandaula koma amene amapikisana.Bungwe ili ntchito yake sikudziwika chifukwa limafuna kuwapatsa anthu munthu amene sanawine.Inu a mec munaputsisana ndi a dpp muona kuti mupanga bwanji ndithu.Apa zikuonekelatu kuti ambiri amene anawina munjira ya undipendeti sanawine koma munapangadala cholinga choti mupaliyamenti adzikakhala mbali ya dpp mbuzi inu ndithu.
What is this nonsense, do you change a presiding officer and you go ahead to appeal. MEC must pack and go. We know that presiding officers changed, otherso people took over after voting was completed from those that came in the morning, in the southern region and you go ahead to appeal the case. This is a move by MEC to test the five judges. Too late now effect.
Ohhh c’mon. Really MEC? Appealing against doing your own job as if you’re aggrieved.
Anyway, poti its Malawi and we do and tolerate shit.
Was MEC defending the case? I thought the person to appeal is the one who MEC wrongly declared awinner?
This is a Dpp Mec no wonder they are appealing.
bungwe la DPP osati a Malawi
Practising rerun appeal. hehede!
It is very interesting that MEC instead of the Member of Parliament who has been declared void has appealed. This is a clearest indicator that MEC has never been neutral but has worked as a branch of DPP. We are schooled up when a referee appeal against a goal that has been declined when the losing team is quiet because they know it wasn’t. Malawi and DPP disease. So terrible
Courts work on facts not mere hearsay as is in village courts. The High Court Judge ruled on the available details and facts. In the case MEC is a respondent and has all the data and facts which it thinks may have not been considered during the litigation. Allow the supreme court to hear the appeal and determine whether a rerun or not. Let’s cool our heads, this is 2020.
Why should MEC appeal? I thought it is a neutral body. I followed the case and its officer told the court that According to him the independent candidate won , he was also surprised that MEC announced another winner. It is this kind of doing things that is eroding trust in people whether this body is a neutral and able to conduct fair elections.
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Agalu ndi mabulutu inu kungofuna kuononga ndalama zaboma
kodi zimenezi tizinema kuti sakudziwa kuti angowonongapo ndalama zamisonkho yathu?zaziiiiiii
LOOKING AT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN MALAWI, WE HAVE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS.
HOW CAN A MEDIATOR APPEAL AS IF MEC WAS ALSO COMPETING?
MEC PLEASE DON’T TAKE MALAWIANS FOR GRANTED, AND IT SHOWS THAT YOU DON’T HAVE GOOD LEGAL ADVISER.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE GOOD DECISIONS THAT WILL BUILD MALAWI BY ACCEPTING THE CALL OF MAJORITY FOR THIS CURRENT MEC TO RESIGN.
Can you tell us how? How will taxpayers money be wasted?
@Lincoln, like serious? you don’t even know that when courts are deliberating, there are costs in form of fuels, allowances, ware & tare just to mention but a few? Where do you think the money come from if not from taxpayers? kungakhala chete nthawi zina nawonso ndi ufulu kusiyana ndikuonetsa umbuli pagulu.
A rerun is more expensive than the appeal