Lawyers for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera and UTM Party leader Saulos Chilima who are disputing the May 21 presidential poll results have asked Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal to disregard an appeal by President Peter Mutharika and Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to have the elections case thrown out. Mutharika and MEC appealed […]
The day five of the Constitutional Court hearing of the 2019 Presidential Elections case ended with UTM Presidential candidate Saulos Chilima telling the court, that no single monitor from his party challenged the results that were sent to the national tally centre in all the 5002 polling stations. Former Vice President ended his five-day marathon […]
As Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal is expected to deliver its ruling on Thursday on an appeal by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) on High Court ruling in June dismissing an application to throw out, based on technicalities, a petition challenging presidential election results, experts have said it is the best interest of both the petitioners […]
As the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) reconvened on Wednesday morning in the historic elections case in Lilongwe , lawyers for first petitioner UTM Party president Saulos Chilima, confirmed he never used the word “fraud” in his petition. During cross-examination Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale , representing Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), second respondent in the case, said Chilima as […]
As predicted, Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale is expected to wind up Wednesday after successful soliciting from Saulosi Chilima that his evidence was hearsay, unfounded and a shocking admission that he did not speak to monitors who claimed malpractices that allegedly affected the 2019 elections. The pattern for the day was the same, with defence laywers […]
Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale on Tuesday continued with his gruelling cross-examination to first petitioner Saulos Chilima in presidential election results to tear apart further his case for nullification of the May results as the UTM Party leader said he cannot say that the contentious correctional fluid Tippex was used for fraud. In cross-examination, Kaphale […]
Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale said he will not be led into a trap by lawyers of first petitioner Saulos Chilima to limit his cross-examination, telling the court that he wants to be on record by mentioning each and every electoral form under dispute in the ongoing presidential election case. Marshal Chilenga, one of Chilima’s lawyers, […]
The 2019 UTM Party presidential candidate Saulos Klaus Chilima ended his worse third day in court by admitting that six of his seven allegations did not meet his categorisation as “plethora of irregularities” as only 0.529% polling centres he used as his evidence to challenge the results were below the term. Former Vice President could […]
Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale on Monday afternoon in historic presidential elections nullification petition case, continued to cross-examine the country’s immediate past vice-president Saulos Chilima, the first petitioner, drawing him to tell the court that he exaggerated the level of irregularities as his claim only relates to 0.5% of the total polling station of […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has returned from the United States and faces a huge battle in court over the presidential election result case. Chakwera left the country two weeks ago for the church trip amid concerns that he is one of the key witnesses in the poll case and should have avoided […]
Malawi’s Constitutional Court on Monday adjourned early in the day three of the ongoing presidential election case after lawyers for country’s immediate past vice-president and UTM leader Saulos Chilima queried Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale for soliciting opinion evidence amd after an hour judges came back to rule that they have upheld the objections that […]
Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal will deliver its ruling on Thursday on an appeal by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) on High Court ruling in June dismissing an application to throw out, based on technicalities, a petition challenging presidential election results. In the case, MEC is the second respondent while President Peter Mutharika is the first […]
Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale has tasked the country’s immediate past vice-president and UTM leader Saulos Chilima to bring several documents to Constitutional Court sitting in Lilongwe on Monday afternoon when it resumes hearing the ongoing presidential election case. Kaphale has asked Chilima about nine things to bring as evidence. Among others, Kaphale has demanded […]
Dr. Saulosi Klaus Chilima political capital has been built on open, transparent and direct participation of all Malawians with proclamation that “tsogolo lowala, lafika”. However, second the day of the historic court case to nullify presidential results in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, Chilima shocked every Malawian as his legal team wanted Chichewa translation out of […]
The Constitutional Court has ruled against lawyer for the first petitioner Saulos Chilima of UTM Party to scrap the translations from English to Chichewa, the national lingua franca, ordering that translation will continue and the court will not limit to time for cross-examinations when prolonged unnecessarily. The private practice lawyer Marshal Chilenga raised an objection […]
Lawyers for the country’s immediate past vice-president Saulos Chilima, the first petitioner in the historic presidential elections nullification petition case, have objected to the line of questioning by Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale, saying he was asking UTM Party president in witness boss on matters of laws. Kaphale, in his capacity as government’s chief legal adviser, […]
At the start of second day of historic presidential elections nullification petition case lawyer for the first petitioner Saulos Chilima of UTM Party asked the panel of five High Court of Malawi judges sitting as the Constitutional Court to scrap the translations from English to Chichewa, the national lingua franca and also limitation of cross-examining […]
At 2.12pm on Thursday August 8 2019 the Constitutional Court once again rebuffed Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale and his predecessor Charles Mhango’s oral applications to have the much awaited petitions to nullify presidential results in the May 21 Tripartite Elections adjourned again. The country’s immediate past vice-president, Saulos Chilima was seen smiling and winked at his […]