Opposition leader Chakwera takes early lead in Malawi fresh polls

June 24, 2020 Wanga Gwede -Nyasa Times 49 Comments

Lazarus Chakwera, 65, the leader of the opposition Tonse Alliance and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has taken an early lead over President Peter Mutharika in a tight fresh presidential election battle according to early provisional counts most from MCP stronghold of central region and the north.

Chakwera and his family

According to batch of results at national tally centre, Chakwera is leading with 453 085 votes with Mutharika trailing with 243 534 and and another candidate Peter Kuwani polling 5 578.

There were 6.8 million voters.

Observers say it is too early to celebrate as most votes in the southern region have not been officially counted. Chakwera’s party is popular in central region districts of the country.

The MCP leader said he had confidence in the newly appointed commissioners of the electoral commission that they will deliver a credible election.

“The electoral commission has so far given us confidence that the will of Malawians is going to be respected,” said Chakwera, further urging his supporters to remain calm.

Chakwera, who alongside his current running mate, Saulos Chilima, petitioned the court to nullify the May 21, 2019 presidential election citing serious electoral irregularities, said so far he was impressed with how the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) had conducted the election.

If no candidate fails to win more than 50 percent this time, Malawi will have to hold a second round of elections.

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49 replies on “Opposition leader Chakwera takes early lead in Malawi fresh polls”

  1. Malawians were given another chance to rid themselves of zipani za mbuli (led by mbulis) komanso zipani za mbavas (led by mbavas-in-chief)!!!!!!!. Malawi will soon wear a new face!!!!

  2. Northerners have voted for Chakwera not because they love him, but because the Tonse alliance is being driven by the tumbuka agenda. The parties in tonse are led by:

    MCP Mrs Chakwera mtumbuka
    UTM Mrs chilima mtumbuka
    PP Mr Richard Banda mtumbuka
    Aford Chihana mtumbuka
    Umodzi Chisi mtumbuka
    Petra Chibambo mtumbuka
    Timothy mtambo mtumbuka
    Khumbo kachali mtumbuka
    Children of chisiza atumbuka
    Chakwera will have to feed these tumbuka mouths before he feeds his fellow pedegus.

    So tumbukas do not vote for a party due to its ideals but due to wakwithu disease.

    Koma nkhanza zomwe mwachitira ma monitor athu a DPP ife zikutiwawa. Sitidzaiwala.

    2. Usatisokose. Padalibe nkhaza. Atupele mumene wathesemukira wanivetsa chisoni. No more family party in Malawi

    4. What you are saying is not true…in 2009 Bingu got a lot of votes in North and central…was he a tumbuka? People voted for him because they were satisfied with his governance…in 1999 again late Gwanda Chakwamba got a lot of votes from North..was he a tumbuka? In North, people vote wisely….they dont vote based on tribalism..if Peter Muthalika had performed well people from North would have voted for him..if ask you today what has peter done in Northern region?the answer is zero.

  4. This analysis is too verge and dangerous to base results based on less than 20 percent of votes. Lets wait until atleast 50 percent count

  7. My fellow Tumbukas, you were better off with people from the South than the Chewas. You will know them better.

    1. We are not here on tribal lines you fool.What have you done with them then?They are purely exercising there right of choice than on your tribal lines.

    2. Better off with the tribalists, regionalists, nepotists, haters with their bwafu old baffoon? Malawians are better off (without using regions or tribes) with a good leader, period.
      NYEKHWE.

    3. We tried them, they forgot about us for a whole year, citing security reasons during the demos. And yet, the demos were countrywide and they are the most protected people in the land. So thanks, but no thanks, we’ll take our chances with the Chewas.

      1. Northerners went to school en mass under the Chewas. Lhomwes are busy stifling our posterity with dirty policies I.e quota

    4. The north and the centre share borders unlike the south. At the same time history says the Lomwe and Yao came from Mozambique. The Tumbukas came from Zaire just like the Chewas. The Ngonis from the north and centre came from South Africa. They are supposed to be together. Mwanya naye Atupele.

    6. Don’t tell us anything. We have a better way of judging matters ourselves. When your temporary president ignores the region and he lies to us about development, is this what you call better? Take your old man home so that he can rest.

    7. I hope you have learnt your lesson that we are not a dead North but a powerful voting block !!!!

  8. Nde zosayenda pamenepa ngati wapeza theka la mavoti kumpanda kwathu nde ife kwaoko tikwanitsa kupedza mavoti ambiri?

  10. I smell a foul play in this article, last year’s anulled FPE started with such articles then all of a sudden things turned upside down. Rather keep quiet, we have hope in this new MEC

    2. This year results are being displayed and announced at every polling station and district. With no tippex where will DPP get the numbers?

  14. I wrote here a year or so ago that this 50+1 kind of voting will result in the Southern region being sideline because the other two regions feel the south is more developed. How can one explain the whitewash APM is getting in the North, a neutral region that is not providing any presidential candidate. Let this continue for two or 3 times we will seceded from your so called Malawi.
    To all of you the young generation this is not the first time the northerners have given a major southerner led party a complete panel beating. In all three times UDF won elections in 1994, 1999 & 2004 the results were like that. It was only in 2009 that things slightly changed due to Bingu’s running mate Joyce Banda culturally regarded as a Northerner due to marriage.
    Please atumbuka vote on merit and not natural hatred.

    1. On merit, who? Toothless demented old baffoon? Northerners are clever and objective. NYEKHWE, kikikikiiiiiiii.

    2. You mean voting trends in Thyolo, Mulanje, Chiradzulu and Phalombe are on Merit? The northern Vote is more on Merit than Natural hatred, You should have asked late Bingu if he were alive.

    3. No region is neutral boss. He made his bed and now he must sleep on it. The Northerners have the duty to protect their judges at the bar. This is a clear repudiation of his polices that undeniably promotes tribalism.

    4. Alomwe dyera ndi kuzikonda musiye.Mwatukwanatukwana a tumbuka kenako mumaganiza kuti akugayileni mwa sweet?

    5. Tumbukas hate people from the South too much. I think its high time we rethink our intermarriages. They are not working at all.

    6. mabodza, in 2004 north voted for Gwanda Chakwamba under mgwirizano coalition.
      in 2009 North voted for Bingu.
      In 1999 North voted for Gwanda Chakwamba under MCP…..

      1. @ Nkuzilire
        Who doesn’t know in 1999 you voted enmass for Chakwamba because he had Chihana a Northerner as a runningmate? Similarly in 2004 you voted for Chakwamba again because of another Northerner in the name of Aleke Banda as a running mate. In 2009 too you regarded Bingu running mate Joyce Banda as Northerner. That somehow I can understand because your hope was that incase of a winning president dropping dead the North will have a president. But this time why the hate?
        Please northern chiefs talk to your people coz this is not how we live in one country. If you talk of southerners and centrallers voting for APM and Chakwera respectively ndipomveka coz akuvotera wakwao koma inuyo both Chakwera & Chilima are not Tumbukas so why kumuda APM like that?
        In 1992 when Chihana appeared on the local political scene he had massive support from the south and could have won the presidency if it were not for the same MCP you are drinking wine with who sent him to jail releasing him only a few weeks towards 1994 general elections.
        Muzatifuna but what you have done yesterday we will not forget.

      2. Let’s remember that the vice presidents for Gwanda were Chihana n Aleke Banda respectively. And when we say u don just vote for the sake of loving somebody we mean it. We have lots of evidence. And the reason y u voted for Bingu was because u had no strong torchbearer attached to North agendas, Mama Joyce, was smelling cashgate n this reverend was his first time to contest so u had no choice but to go for Bingu. So frankly speaking, the Northeners supports somebody whenever there is harvest like this time. let me keep some assignment for tommorrow

    8. kkkkkkkkkkk the South is developed like Singapore my foot! kkkkkkk how come APM is fooling so many?

    1. This comment of mine has been altered. It has no resemblance to what I posted. It would be better if it was simply deleted.

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