Professor John Chisi on Monday was the second presidential hopeful to present his presidential candidature papers as the Umodzi Party nominee for the May 21 Tripartite Elections. Chisi has presented his nomination papers after unveiling his running mate Timothy Kamulete, an accountant by profession. In his speech, Chisi said he will fight for land rights […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Justice Jane Ansah has advised that there is one one winner in an elections and those who will not succeed should know this fact. Ansah made the remarks at the Chichiri International Conference Centre, widely known as Comesa Hall, in Blantyre on Monday as MEC started to receive nomination papers […]
Political analysts and governance commentators have said the United Democratic Front (UDF) led by youthful Minister of Health Atupele Muluzi, hold key to winning the May 21 2019 watershed Tripartite Elections. The elections will be a three –block affair among UTM Party of State vice-president Saulos Chilima, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) of Lazarus Chakwera and […]
Leaders of the opposition UTM-PP-Aford-Tikonze alliance have been meeting at the weekend to further the discourse on a joint presidential candidate for the upcoming polls on May 21 2019 and former president Joyce Banda has disclosed that Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima will be their torchbearer. The opposition alliance does not include the Malawi Congress […]
Former vice-president Khumbo Kachali has announced that his Freedom Party (FP) has entered into an electoral alliance with main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and has endorsed the candidature of Lazarus Chakwera and his running mate Sidik Mia. Kachali said on Sunday at a news conference that he backs MCP torchbearer in the watershed May 21 […]
President Peter Mutharika has urged the citizenry to put to an end various acts of abuse happening in the country, especially to women. He made the call Sunday during his whistle stop tour conducted in selected constituencies in Lilongwe. Mutharika, who is the torch bearer for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party 9DPP) in the forthcoming […]
Diocesan Administrator for Dedza Diocese in the influential Roman Catholic Church, Monsignor John Chithonje, has asked the church’s faithfuls to live in harmony with members of other denominations and religions and be ambassadors of peace and tolerance ahead of Malawi’s tripartite elections in May this year. He spoke Saturday at Dedza Diocese on the occasion […]
Government and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has said rubbished the announcement by nine opposition political parties that they have agree to form an electoral alliance in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections, saying the DPP are not threatened by what they call “combination of nuisance.” The alliance involves recent-past governing People’s Party (PP), newly registered […]
An opposition alliance consisting of four political parties namely UTM Party, Peoples Party (PP), Alliance for Democracy (Aford) and Tikonze Progressive Party has been formed and will name its torch bearer on Monday in the capital Lilongwe. A joint statement issued by the parties made available to Nyasa Times on Friday comes barely 24 hours […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leaders from Monkey-Bay Constituency have given President Peter Mutharika two days to call for a fresh primary election on parliamentary in their area to enable them choose a candidate based on the party’s laws. The leaders say the primary elections which the party conducted last week were marred by […]
Governmrny has rejected accusations by Vice-President Saulos Chilima that President Peter Mutharika of failing to curb political violence as the country moves towards the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections as “misinformation.’’ Chilima, who is also president of UTM Party registered after he severed ties with the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) last June, told a news conference […]
UTM Party presidential candidate Saulos Chilima has said the person he will name as running mate for the May 21 watershed elections will be the Vice President of the country. Addressing a news conference in Lilongwe on Wednesday, Chilima , who is currently the State vice-president, said he will name the ‘surprise’ running mate in […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission has released the official programme for presentation of nomination papers for all aspiring presidential candidates in the much awaited Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government Tripartite Elections slated for May 21 2019. The presentation of nomination papers will run from February 4 to 8 2019. According to a statement released by electoral […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who is torchbearer of UTM Party in the May 21 elections, has accused the DPP–led government of perpetuating violence as another form of rigging the outcome of the polls but expressed confidence that even in the event of terror his party is ready to usher in the change Malawi needs. The UTM […]
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima has rebuked President Peter Mutharika for failing to take action on political violence asking him to be a Head of State for all not a few of his cronies. Addressing a highly anticipated news conference in Lilongwe on Wednesday, Chilima , who is also UTM Party torchbearer for the May […]
Scores of demonstrators have marched through the streets of the capital city Lilongwe to denounce what they describe as escalating violence against women in politics ahead of the country’s watershed tripartite elections in May this year. The women rights activists and organisations led by the NGO Gender Coordination Network (NGO-GCN) on Tuesday took to the […]
Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya has asked Malawi Police Service (MPS) Inspector General (IG) Rodney Jose to consider resgining for allegedly allowing partisan politics and tolerating political violence. The Speaker said at a news conference on violence against women during the campaign period organised by the Parliamentary Women Caucus that Police chief should ensure arrest […]
Political and governance experts have spoken on the criteria that presidential candidates should use to pick their runningmates in the May 21 Tripartite Electiosn and speculations countinue on who incumbent President Peter Mutharika leading the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and estranged Vice-President Saulos Chilima of UTM Party will pair with. Henry Chingaipe, a political […]