President Peter Mutharika and governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawyers have filed to the constitution court to strike out the election dispute case filled by the opposition, the lawyer for DPP, Chancy Gondwe, has confirmed. Chakwera and UTM Party president Saulos Chilima, who is also the country’s immediate past vice-president, are challenging the May 21 […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has dismissed an application by rapper-cum-politician Tay Grin (real name Limbani Kalirani) requesting for parliamentary vote recount in Lilongwe City Centre constituency. Tay Grin contested n the May 21 Tripartite Elections on a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ticket but lost to Alfred Jiya of Malawi Congress Party (MCP). In his […]
University of Malawi Chancellor College-based political analyst Mustafa Hussein has dismissed the sole independent presidential candidate in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, Reverend Hardwick Kaliya remarks that other contenders should accept defeat graciously, saying he is undermining the court where Saulos Chilima and Lazarus Chakwera are challenging results of the presidential race. During a news […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has started fasting for what he calls “victory over wickedness” and for good leaders and truth to reign in Malawi. In a social media statement, Chakwera says the three-day fasting ends on Friday, a day when the Constitutional court is expected to meet the legal team for the […]
A legal battle against the outcome of the presidential race in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections has seen President Peter Mutharika being dragged into the case after the Constitutional Court has included him as the first respondent. Registrar of the High Court of Malawi and Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, Agness Patemba, confirmed Mutharika […]
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 […]
Malawians have made a choice of who should govern them up to 2024 and it is time to move on and accept President Peter Mutharika has the mandate to be in power, says Reverend Hardwick Kaliya who was one of the presidential contestants in May 21 Tripartite Elections. Kaliya, who was the only independent presidential candidate, […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporters in Dedza and Zomba joined by Peoples Party (PP) supporters on Tuesday joined their colleagues in other parts of the country in protesting the May 21 Tripartite Election results. During the protest march—which was largely peaceful—MCP supporters sang with sorrow, complaining how Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) allegedly allowed tippexed results […]
Government has angrily reacted to a statement from the African Union Southern Africa regional office (AU-Saro) who condemned the police for using excessive force to crack down on Malawi Congress Party (MCP) cadres’ protests. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation says the police has continued to exercise maximum restraint in discharging its duties. “The […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has defiantly said its supporters will not leave streets where they are protesting against the outcome of the May 21 tripartite elections. MCP spokesperson Maurice Munthali said it was the party supporters’ Constitutional right to protest peacefully over the outcome of the presidential polls which he said were manipulated […]
Outgoing US ambassador to Malawi Virginia Palmer has called for post-election peace, saying those with complaints on the discredited May 21 Tripartite Elections, should seek justice from the courts. Palmer said this on Wednesday evening during a farewell cocktail in the Capital City, just hours before herself was caught up in cross fire between disgruntled […]
Public Affairs Committee (PAC), a quasi-religious body formed in 1992 during the country’s political transition from one-party to multiparty democracy, has backed Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Party decision to challenge the May 21 Tripartite Elections results in court, saying this was in line with peace agreement the two parties signed. PAC chairperson Very […]
Malawi police on Thursday fired tear gas into US Embassy offices in Lilongwe as opposition supporters staged another protests over the May 21 Tripartite Elections results and blocked off protesters running to the building, witnesses said. As the US Embassy was engulfed with smoke, security officers swiftly evacuated the ambassador Virginia Palmer who is winding […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and its alliance partners vowed to continue protesting the May 21 Tripartite Elections results until justice prevails on the “fraudulent” results. Party spokesperson Reverend Maurice Munthali said the supporters will keep holding peaceful marches “until people are given the answers they need.” Last Tuesday MCP supporters raided Capital Hill in Lilongwe […]
Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) has written the rotten Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to quash the presidential results after it controversially declared President Peter Mutharika a victor in last month’s Tripartite Elections. In a letter to the electoral commission Chairperson Jane Ansah, which has been signed by the General Secretary […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM have welcomed the consolidation of their separate May 21 Tripartite Election petition cases in which both parties are asking the High Court to order a re-run following poll results irregularities. MCP spokesperson Maurice Munthali said the party legal team will now work together with the UTM lawyers to […]
Lilongwe High Court Judge Charles Mkandawire has ruled that presidential elections-related cases filed separately by UTM Party and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) be consolidated and heard as one and should be referred to the Constitutional Court. MCP, which alongside UTM Party led by the country’s immediate past vice-president Saulos Chilima, is challenging results of the […]
There are no foreign barristers hired to represent the UTM Party in the elections case where it is asking the courts to nullify the results of the May 21 presidential elections, a lead Counsel has said. Dr. Chikosa Silungwe, who is leading a team of lawyers representing UTM’s presidential candidate Dr Saulos Chilima in the […]