Mbakuwaku Movement for Democracy (MMD) leader Peter Kuwani has trashed the Presidential Prayer Breakfast which took place Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Thursday, saying it was not relavant compared to the event organised by Public Affairs Committee (PAC) last Saturday where the candidates committed to a peaceful campaign and election. Mutharika was the only presidential […]
As the nation treads towards the May 21 tripartite elections, the mood is extremely electric. Politicians are criss-crossing the country to canvass for votes. As it is often the case with campaign seasons in Malawi, various players, some with poisonous interests, join the fray to try and define the political narrative with the aim of […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Kondwani Nankhumwa on Tuesday chickened out of a political debate aimed at bringing together parliamentary and local government candidates together to face the electorate. The political debate, organized by National Institute for Civic Education (Nice) Trust went ahead with the UTM Party candidate in Mulanje central Dr. Michael […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has cautioned party monitors to be vigilant and knowledgeable with the Election Day processes as one way of ending the existing rigging allegations as it has launched a nationwide training sessions for 1 5000 party monitors. Speaking during a training for party monitors in Rumphi, CMD Programs officer, Deborah Mitawa, said […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says the government has finally released money for the hiring of 400 vehicles for the polls in less than two weeks’ time. MEC commissioner Moffat Banda was however tight lipped to reveal how much the government has released for the hiring of the vehicles. Banda, however, described the release […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says that despite the Commission not assigning an official broadcaster for the May 21 Tripartite Elections like in the past Elections, the country will not be in an information vacuum as all media are free to fully cover entire elections in all the polling centres. Director of Media Sangwani Mwafulirwa said […]
The Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM), a grouping of eight Catholic Diocese in Malawi, has stressed that Malawians should desist from voting along tribal and regional lines if the Country is elect leaders who can register economic and social transformation after the May 21 Tripartite Elections. According to ECM’s analysis, Malawi is in times that […]
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) official has asked people in Thyolo to usher into power development oriented candidates on May 21 2019. Senior public education officer at ACB, Patrick Thole, made the remarks on Tuesday during a meeting Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) held for chiefs in Traditional Authority (T/A) Msabwe in the district to provide communities […]
Former vice president Cassim Chilumpha has applied for a stay order against pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) so that he should run for the presidency in two weeks’ time. Chilumpha’s sworn in affidavit is expected to be read in the High Court in the coming days. Both the Chilumpha legal team and officials from […]
Nkhata Bay district commissioner Rodney Simwaka and the police are worried that some politicians continue to hold political rallies in the district without informing the authority. The district commissioner urged political leaders to inform his office and the police to avoid the crashing of venue with others which he said could be a recipe for […]
A prayer breakfast for presidential aspirants aimed at promoting peaceful coexistence in the run-up to May 21 Tripartite Elections has been set for this Thursday and will be held at Kamuzu Palace, the official residence of President Peter Mutharika, who is seeking re-election on governing a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ticket. Ironically, Mutharika shunned prayers for […]
President Peter Mutharika says the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is banking on infrastructure development and stable economy for his re-election bid and has urged all registered voters in Karonga district to come out in large numbers to vote for the DPP in the May 21 Tripartite Elections. Addressing multitudes of people who blocked the […]
Paramount Chief Kyungu of Karonga and Chitipa on Monday censored churches that he said are peddling partisan politics in the run up to the May 21 2019 watershed tripartite elections. Speaking in Chitipa during the official opening of the Kasama Community Technical College in Chitipa, Kyungu did not name the churches. “The Church is not […]
UTM Party presidential candidate Saulos Chilima has asked Muslims who are preparing for the commencement of the holy period of Ramadan to use the period to pray for peaceful May 21 Tripartite Elections. Ramadan is a period of one full month that the faithful undertake a dawn – dusk fasting which primarily entails abstinence from […]
UTM party presidential candidate in the May 21 watershed elections, Saulos Chilima, on Sunday took to the campaign podium in Mangochi to sing a song and dance about that President Peter Mutharika’s time as leader of the country is drawing to a close. Chilima led in singing his now trademark tune ‘Zosiyilana, Zosiyilana’, a once […]
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has been appointed to lead Commonwealth observer group to Malawi’s watershed and second Tripartite Elections on May 21. According to a statement from the Commonwealth secretariat , the 13-member Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) is being deployed by Commonwealth secretary general Patricia Scotland following a request from the Malawi Electoral […]
After meeting age-voting youths, Nsanje East Bank Traditional Authority (T/A) Mlolo, dated all the aspiring candidates of all parties in her area the following day where she briefed them of what she discussed with the youths. Held at Fatima School premises under the theme ‘Dolo Amavota’ (a champions makes sure votes), had encouraged the youths […]
As it were, all the attention in this month’s elections is on who is likely to be Malawi’s next President. So far, the presidential candidates have said enough in their campaigns for people to make up their minds on who to vote for. The competition among the candidates is very stiff. Even being in government, […]