The Constitutional Court in the ongoing presidential election court petition case has censored the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for its conduct particularly for appearing to act in collusion with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Peter Mutharika’s lawyers. This follows the query by lawyers for UTM Party and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidates […]
The Constitutional Court in the ongoing presidential election court petition case has said it wants a speedy trial and announced new eight directions to ensure the matter is expedited following concerns that the case was moving at a slow pace. The UTM Party and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) legal teams have accused the governing Democratic […]
After eight days of gruelling cross examination, UTM Party leader Saulos Chilima remains in the witness box at the Constitutional Court in the ongoing presidential election court petition case as his legal team now starts re-examination. Chilima is the first petitioner while Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera is the second petitioner. President Peter Mutharika, […]
Former vice-president Saulos Chilima on the seventh day of his evidence cross-examination confirmed that correctional fluid “tippex” was not used to favour his former boss President Peter Mutharika and also conceded that he has no evidence that Mutharika rigged the elections to be re-elected. In a huge turn around to all his claims, Chilima told […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera lead lawyer in the presidential election petition case, senior counsel Mordecai Msisha was on Monday was forced to apologise to the Constitutional Court when he said the case was proceeding slow and it could end in 2025. The case has 800 witnesses and estimates indicate the matter might end early […]
UTM Party leader Saulos Chilima said in court on Monday that the May 21 Tripartite Elections results sheets were altered using correction fluid, Tippex, in many parts of the country including places where he recorded highest votes. The country’s immediate past vice-president said in witness boss when he was being cross-examined by President Peter Mutharika’s lead […]
President Peter Mutharika is not among the people who will take in the witness box in the ongoing presidential election case because he has not sworn any statement, Judiciary spokesperson has said. Registrar of the High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Agnes Patemba told a local radio that Mutharika will not appear and answer questions […]
The Judiciary has said presidential election nullification petition case will not end in 24 days as widely believed, saying the matter may prolong up to December this year before a determination is made. Registrar of High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Agnes Patemba said there is no specific duration to hear the elections petition case. Patemba […]
Taxpayers will have to foot an unplanned K150 million as costs for the ongoing presidential elections case in the Constitutional Court in Lilongwe, the Judiciary has said. Judiciary spokesperson Agness Patemba told local radio that there is about K150 million which will be required to fund the elections case, saying the five judges have relocated […]
Despite concerns of severe economic consequences if airports and border posts are closed as planned by the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC), the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) has backed the five-day vigils. The synod’s general secretary the Reverend Levi Nyondo said the church will do what it can, including […]
UTM presidential candidate Saulos Chilima returns in the witness box Monday in the ongoing historic presidential election case when lawyers for first respondent President Peter Mutharika, will continue in cross-examining him about the evidence he has tendered in support of his petition. Mutharika’s lead counsel Frank Farouk Mbeta will quiz Chilima, the immediate past vice […]
Next week I will be heading to Mkaika, yes, it is the last Saturday of the month, hence the famous Kulamba weekend which starts on a Thursday and ends on a Monday at Katete in Zambia. This is the Chewa’s biggest festival. The Brazilian carnival equivalent on Africa soil. I was at Hora mountain, escorting […]
Lawyers for first respondent President Peter Mutharika in the ongoing historic presidential election case will on Monday quiz UTM presidential candidate Saulos Chilima on the audio recordings he has presented in Constitution Court as evidence in which poll commission officials are overheard discussing election irregularities. Frank Mbeta, one of the lawyers for Mutharika, on Friday […]
As hearing of the historic continues in the Constitutional Court sitting in Lilongwe, the former Vice President, Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima disowned the ultraviolet gadgets that some unscrupulous UTM Party monitors were unlawfully using during the monitoring of the May 21 elections. Lawyer Frank Mbeta representing first respondent President Peter Mutharika on Friday showed Chilima […]
Former Vice President Saulos Chilima who was accused of clinging to office when Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led government officials called for his resignation after he ditched the party on June 6 2018, faced his ghosts as President Peter Mutharika lawyer Frank Mbeta forced him to accept that “calls for resignation are not proof of wrongdoing.” […]
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) hearing the presidential election case from UTM Party presidential candidate Saulos Chilima and his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) counterpart, Lazarus Chakwera, has given revised directions on cross-examination of witnesses and objections from the lawyers to ensure expedited trial. Judge Healey Potani, chair of the five-judge panel of Dingiswayo Madise, Redson Kapindu, […]
UTM Party and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) have welcomed the Supreme Court decision to reject the appeal by President Peter Mutharika and the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to dismiss an election petition case which the two party leaders brought before the High Court disputing May 21 presidential election. A panel of seven Supreme Court judges, led […]
Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal has rejected an attempt by President Peter Mutharika and Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to prevent the Constitution Court judges hearing the presidential elections case. The bid to dismiss the case on technical ground was rejected by the High Court sitting as the Constitutional Court on June 22 2019. But Mutharika and […]