Two Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members of Parliament, Sosten Gwengwe and Peter Dimba on Saturday became the first to sail through in the primary process to become the party candidates during the forth coming 2019 general elections. Gwengwe comes from Lilongwe Msozi North while Dimba comes from Lilongwe South. In March 2017, Gwengwe floored down […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansahhas disclosed that Blantyre district has registered lowest figures in voter registration in readiness for the May 2019 tripartite elections. The development follows earlier reports that district has developed strategies to ensure a record high turnout of people during the exercise. Speaking at a National Elections Consultative Forum (NECOF) […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima who has taken the Quota system as a campaign issue has reignited a hot debate on the matter. Chilima is promising voters that if elected as President next year, he will abolish the Quota system for selecting students to institutions of higher learning which he has described as evil and satanic. Malawi […]
Immediate past president Joyce Banda who has got the nod to lead People’s Party (PP) has said she has a plan to drive ‘prosperity for all’ that will get the country moving when voted back to power in May 21 2019 Tripartite elections. Banda was feeling shocked and bruised by 2014’s presidential elections defeat where […]
Former president Joyce Banda on Thursday gave the Peoples Party (PP) new rays of hope as she opened the party elective convention in Blantyre, saying the party will pull surprises during the 2019 Tripartite elections. Speaking before a 2 000 strong party delegation, Banda was upbeat the former ruling party would be back in government […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has says religious leaders have a critical role of educating and mobilizing their congregants to register and vote. In an interview, MEC Director of Public Relations, Sangwani Mwafulirwa said religious leaders should preach the goodness and importance of registering. “Much as churches are leading people to heaven or preparing them for […]
There has been high poll voter registration in Blantyre, Mwanza, Ntcheu and Chikhwawa as the exercise closes. Reports in some areas say voter registration staff were overwhelmed with the high turn-out. Officials from the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) say the south is not facing serious voter registration hitches as was the case in the central […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has said his party is ready to take Malawians to another level because it has in the pipeline a national development plan which can be ascribed to by everyone. Chakwera said this during a whistle-stop tour MCP had on Tuesday in Mwanza district at Mwanza Turn-off, Chimulangi Trading Centre, […]
United Transformation Movement (UTM) led by State Vice-President Saulos Chilima has joined opposition political parties not represented in Parliament in a coalition to field one presidential candidate in the 2019 Tripartite Elections, its chairperson Cassim Chilumpha has said. Chilumpha, a former vice-president who now leads Assembly for Democracy and Development (ADD), said they have agreed […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-presidents for the South, Kondwani Nankhumwa, says he’s confident that the DPP will win next year’s elections with overwhelming support because Peter Mutharika administration continues to give tangible developments. Nankhumwa, who is also Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Mulanje Central legislator, was addressing a mass rally in […]
According to institutions that examine democracies around the world, Malawi is on the list of a number of countries in which democracy is failing. It is difficult to argue with this assessment. The promise and the hope that we all had at the ousting of the MCP dictatorship and the ushering in of this beautiful […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera on Friday told the party youth they need to stop being political bystanders and be actively involved in the country’s decision-making process, saying they should “step up” and register to vote to prevent being “held back” by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Chakwera said the youths forms the integral […]
Government is yet to implement the Political Parties Act, seven months after it was passed into law and just eight months before the 2019 election, raising fears that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government might not operationalize it. Political scientist Augustine Magolowondo said it was imperative for the government to implement the law, saying […]
Over 1000 Malawi Congress Party (MCP) youths converged at the party headquarters in Lilongwe where they are holding a conference pay more attention to youth issues. The conference is first of its kind in the history of the party ahead of 2019 general elections. Delegates, under the leadership of MCP Youth Director Richard William Chimwendo […]
The deputy Norwegian Ambassador to Malawi, Merithe Luis, has called on political parties and electoral stakeholders in the country to observe peace and desist from politics of violence and mudslinging in the run up to 2019 tripartite elections. Luis made the remarks when she made a courtesy call to Karonga district commissioner Richard Hara – […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has put on hold primary elections for parliamentary and local government elections amid concerns from aspiring candidates that this would negatively affect the preparations for the 2019 Tripartite Elections. MCP secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka has confirmed the postponement and described it as a “domestic matter.” However, reports indicate that […]
Pollster Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has come under intense fire from warehouse staff and drivers for non payment of their salaries for two months and failure to maintain vehicles. MEC warehouse assistants in Lilongwe said they have not been paid for two months now and MEC officials are not coming out to explain why this […]
The fourth phase of voter registration is currently in progress in Blantyre City, Blantyre district, Ntcheu, Chikwawa and Mwanza councils. Voter registration in this phase will end on August 29, 2018. We continue looking at voter registration and today we focus on how to identify a centre where one qualifies to register. The electoral laws […]