Malawi Congress Party (MCP) director of research Dr. John Paul has said he will stand as an independent parliamentary candidate in Mchinji central during the May 21 tripartite elections, after the party failed to resolve a disputed primary poll. Paul said the party has just imposed a candidate on the people, saying this culture has […]
We are now in the season when Malawian politics throws so many things at us that it becomes difficult to swallow everything. Election season is here and the issue of running-mates is the one which is beginning to overload the air because pretty soon (actually in three weeks time) all presidential candidates will be required to […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has changed tune on its earlier announcement not to hold primary elections in the United Democratic Front (UDF) strongholds of Mangochi and Mangochi, saying the party will now field candidates. DPP spokesperson Nicholas Dausi was responding to queries from different parliamentary and Local government election aspirants who are concerned with […]
Malawian vice-president Saulos Chilima has told the Voice of America (VOA) that the relationship of the future president and vice president could improve only after an amendment to the Republican Constitution to make the office of the veep not a delegated job. Chilima said this on his final “private engagement” tour of the US. The […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has sternly warned candidates that they would be barred from contesting in the forthcoming election if it is proved that they have been sponsoring political violence. MEC Commissioner Jean Mathanga has said the pollster does not condone political violence of any sort. Her comments come at a time when political violence […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) has made a stinging attack on its political bedmate, the ruling party, accusing it of using the UDF supporters in political violence clandestine operations. UDF vice president for the eastern region Lilian Patel flanked by other senior party members from the region warned she would reveal more if the Democratic Progressive […]
Lilongwe City Mayor Desmond Bikoko has pledged to support Grace Kwelepeta, who is ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate for Zomba Malosa. This, has put to rest rumours that Bikoko will contest as an independent candidate for the constituency. Speaking to the media in Zomba, Bikoko said the main reason for not contesting is to […]
Public election organisers and managers, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) have sharply contradicted president Peter Mutharika on possibility of vote rigging, saying with the new high-teach voting methods, no one can rig the polls. Spokesperson for MEC Sangwani Mwafulirwa said in addition, all votes will be tallied at constituency level, will not be taken to […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera has said the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is responsible of masterminding rising cases of political violence and that it should not deny this. Chakwera, who said is pushing for a peaceful campaign to the May 21 Tripartite Election, condemned DPP’s “culture of violence,” saying his is […]
Malawi Police Service in Mangochi have arrested one suspect in connection with an ugly incident in which a UTM Party’s woman was stripped off her clothes and nearly walked naked in public at M’baluku in the lakeshore district on Sunday. The arrest of 28-year-old Adam Masitala came barely hours after the powerful women movement, Women […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera on Monday met Malawi Police Service (MPS) Inspector General Rodney Jose on Monday on the rising incidents of politically motivated acts of violence perpetrated by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ahead of the watershed May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. DPP has since distanced itself from the cases of […]
Former president and People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda has reassured local smallholder farmers that once voted into power she will exploit new export markets for their produce in a bid to give them meaningful earnings for their sweat and promised to put three million jobless Malawians on employment. She was speaking on Monday at […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Deputy National Director of Women, Victoria Kingstone has downplayed the rumours making rounds that the party would not field candidates in Mangochi. Kingstone who is also an aspiring candidate for Mangochi Central parliamentary seat said this during a rally she held on Sunday at St. Augustine 3 Primary School […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has confidently assured that it will deliver free, fair and credible elections which will also be transparent and cost-effectove May 21 2019 Tripartite elections billed as watershed. MEC Commissioner, Mary Nkosi was speaking Monday in Lilongwe when she opened a three-day workshop for media practitioners on election monitoring and reporting where […]
Desperate times! The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP attempt to ‘spin’ their militant youth cadets acts of stripping and beating innocent women in Mangochi has hit a record low after the party tried to organize a march against a united opposition news conference condemning the evil acts. Women from across the political divide, are this morning […]
The former governing People’s Party (PP) of Joyce Banda, which said was contesting in all the 193 constituencies, says it has successfully completed its primary elections. PP spokesperson Ackson Kalaile Banda said his party is probably the only party which had violent free primary elections. “This was so because of the unity which exists in […]
Governance commentators have called on Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to summon politicians who are hallucinating at every turn about the possible rigging of the coming elections to bring evidence of their allegations so that the electoral body can act on it now before it is too late. President Peter Mutharika on Sunday warned “a certain […]
Malawi Police Service in lakeshore district of Mangochi has said it has launched an investigation that will lead them to arrest people who attacked UTM supporters in Mangochi on Sunday while the supporters where going to Namwera to conduct a political rally they scheduled to conduct. Unknown people allegedly said to be from the ruling […]