The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) will start the process of presenting nomination papers to aspiring candidates for the presidency, Member of Parliament and Local Government from Thursday, January 3 in readiness for the May 2019 Tripartite Elections. A statement from MEC signed by Chief Elections Officer, Sam Alfandika released on December 31, says all presidential […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has warned political parties and youths in Mangochi District against provocative campaigns and acts capable of breaching peace in the build-up to the 2019 tripartite polls. MEC Mangochi election clerk Mcnight Kachingwe issued the warning on Friday in the district when the electoral body organized a Multiparty Liaison Committee (MPLC) aimed […]
The year is coming to an end and Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima has wished Malawians “both in the country and in the diaspora a fulfilling 2019” stressing that the new year is a “make or break” for the southern African nation. As the 2019 elections comes closer and closer, Chilima said in a media […]
Whichever way you look at it, 2018 has been a year of twists and turns. Meanwhile, Malawi our motherland, the ONLY one we have is firing on all cylinders towards an abyss. We are now entering that vicious semester when the very people who have been accelerating our doomed cruise towards the chasm while claiming […]
Former president Joyce Banda says is determined to contest in presidential elections due May 21 2019, saying it was an honour to be Malawi’s first female President and the first in the Southern Africa region as well as the second in Africa, promising a “phase two” of development if she is voted back in power. […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has assured Malawians that it will attract investments and establish companies once voted into power as one way of creating jobs to the youths who command a large population of the country. The party made this promise on Saturday in Mzimba Solola where it conducted youth conference and a youth […]
First Deputy Speaker of Malawi parliament has said there is need for electorate to know the laws that their parliamentarians make for them to act and behave according to the laws of the country. The deputy Speaker, who is also member of parliament for Nsanje North, made the remarks at Fatima where she had a […]
UTM Party director of publicity Joseph Chidanti Malunga has tweaked its leader Saulos Chilima’s promise that the movement would pay nomination fees for all its candidates, saying actually the party would only pay for those who cannot afford. Chilima, who is also State Vice-President, said at Njamba Freedom Park on July 29 2018 during the […]
The only reason the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) doesn’t face a real threat of imminent defeat in 2019 is that the opposition – both parliamentary and presidential – are not united but the cracks within the party is weakening it especially in its considered stronghold of Southern Region. Now a group calling itself Patriotic DPP […]
People’s Party (PP) president Joyce Banda has made a landmark announcement that she will abolish regular and frequent motor vehicle license renewals as she will scrape off driving license expiry dates if she wins the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Banda, the former president who governed Malawi between 2012 to 2014, made the announcement at […]
Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa, has won governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) primaries in Mulanje Central constituency without any opposition. Amid heavy rains, DPP constituency committee members came in large numbers to endorse their loved parliamentarian. When one of the presiding officers, Dr. Hetherwick Ntaba set the process in motion, it was […]
Incumbent Chairperson of Salima District Council, Councilor Evason Mpayani of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and Liwadzi Ward in Salima North West Constituency has become the seventh sitting Councilor to be defeated in primary elections in Salima, after he lost to a female aspirant, Esther Soko. Mpayani was defeated at the MCP Primary elections but he is contesting the results. A Salima based local governance Civil Society Group; Salima Governance Network (SAGNET) has described the heavy casualties of […]
Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has called on different stakeholders to uphold human rights in the run up to May 21, 2019 tripartite elections to ensure peaceful, free and fair elections. MHRC’s executivedirector David Nungu said Thursday during a one-day review meeting on the progress of promotion and protection of human rights in the country. […]
Lilongwe City Centre Member of Parliament, l David Bisnowaty, on Wednesday officially transferred his registration voting certificate from the constituency to Lilongwe City North, saying he has done so on the wishes of his supporters to run as an independent. Bisnowaty did his transfer at Mbang’ombe Primary School taking advantage of the electoral calendar where […]
Former speaker of parliament Henry Chimunthu Banda has won ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) primaries in Nkhotakota north to represent the party in the coming May 2019 Tripartite elections. Chimunthu Banda who retired from front line politics in 2014 after serving the constituency for 15 years, has bounced back amidst romours that he may be […]
The Public Relations Society of Malawi (PRSM) has organised a panel discussion this Thursday to be held at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe to tackle issues such as who is responsible for the spread of fake news in Malawi and how the problem can be solved ahead of the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. PRSM was […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who is also UTM party president, is in Abuja, Nigeria attending a high level meeting on mitigating disruptive applications of information and communication technology (ICT) in electoral processes. Chilima, who ditched the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and will contest in next year’s presidential race on UTM ticket after getting the party’s […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has announced that the second phase of voters’ register inspection and verification will commence Tuesday 18th December 2018. A statement released on Monday signed by Chief Elections Officer Sam Alfandika indicates that the second phase will run up to22nd December, 2018. The phase will cover seven districts namely Lilongwe, Ntcheu, Blantyre, Mwanza,Neno, Nsanje and […]