Major political parties have put their political differences aside to urge all their supporters go for Covid-19 vaccine. President Lazarus Chakwera inaugurates the historic life saving vaccine rollout tomorrow in Zomba while vice president Saulos Chilima will be in Mzuzu. Political parties top leadership recently held a sensitisation meeting under the Centre for Multiparty Democracy […]
Centre for Multi-party Democracy (CMD) has decried the delay by the government to fill the vacancy in the office of a Registrar of Political Parties, saying this is hampering efforts to bring about sanity in the operations of political parties in the country. CMD Executive Director Kizito Tenthani, speaking in a special radio programme, on […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has called upon all political parties and their agents to remain calm during the vote counting process as results trickle in. CMD Executive Director Kizito Tenthani said it is ideal for party leaders and followers to hold their breath because vote counting process is the ‘highest tension area’ in an […]
A powerful traditional leader in Dowa has called for a meeting today with political stakeholders and security in a bid to end political violence in the country. Chief Mponela said he was not amused on Saturday that some people blocked the M1 road at Mponela in order to stop president Peter Mutharika’s running mate Atupele […]
Malawi has tasted resemblance of peace after days of political violence in some areas ahead of the Constitutional Court sanctioned presidential election. This follows peace talks which political parties’s secretary generals held with the police acting Inspector General Duncan Mwapasa on Friday. Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) brokered the peace talks. CMD executive director Kizito […]
State vice-president Saulos Chilima’s led part, UTM, has taken over the chairmanship of the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) programmes. UTM secretary general Patricia Kaliati says the party signed the dotted lines to take over the chairmanship of the CMD programmes last week. She says UTM will chair the CMD programmes for the next six […]
Registrar of Political Parties have extended time limit for political parties to adhere to the political parties Act which bars handouts as way of luring voters during elections. The registrar has extended the time limit to March 2020 from December 2018 when the Act came into force. Kizito Tenthani of Centre for Multiparty Democracy has […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) says political parties which have failed to get parliamentary seats risk deregistration by the registrar of Political Parties. Executive director of CMD Kizito Tenthani said it was a requirement by law for political parties to have at least a parliamentary seat in order to avoid deregistration. “If they got five […]
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 […]
Centre for Multi-Party Democracy (CDM) Executive Director Kizito Tenthani has said political parties contesting in the May 21 Tripartite Elections have a Political Parties Act obligation to disclose publicly the sources of their private funding for the campaign. Tenthani said this in Mzuzu on Friday during the launch of the voter education by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has warned that political parties which fails to participate in elections risks deregistration. CMD executive director Kizito Tenthani said CMD is just waiting for a report from the registrar of political parties which has already asked political parties to give evidence that they had been participating in elections. “If the […]
Six political parties including the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), have called on the police to act swiftly on any political violence and bring culprits to justice. The parties’ Secretary Generals or their representatives made the appeal on Saturday in a joint communiqué which they issued after […]
Politicians from both the ruling and the opposition parties in Mangochi have agreed to end the escalating political violence which is a deterrent to a free, fair and credible 2019 highly contentious elections. Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) organized the one day highly successful political indaba in the lake shore violence hot spot district after […]
Five political parties are holding a peace summit in Mangochi, a district that has seen the worst political violence ever including the torching of a UTM Party vehicle and the undressing of a woman for putting on vice-president Saulos Chilima branded regalia. The meeting comes at a time when the police have just arrested the […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has embarked on massive civic education on the new Political Party law which came into effect on December 1, warning failure to adhere to the requirements would lead to the deregistration of parties. CMD executive director Kizito Tenthani is visiting districts where he is meeting district party leaders to sensitize […]
The International Republican Institute (IRI), a governance think tank based in the United States of America (USA), says it will help strengthen the capacity of Malawi’s political parties so that they contribute effectively towards the consolidation of the country’s young democracy. Resident Program Director for IRI Lara Petricevic-Williams said this Tuesday in Lilongwe at the […]
Concerned with growing intra party tensions and violence in Malawi’s political parties ahead of the 2019 tripartite elections, the Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) in partnership with International Republican Institute (IRI), a governance think tank based in United States of American (USA), will engage senior party officials in an election management workshop beginning Tuesday in […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD), a platform of all political parties in the country say they have no powers to force the parties provide monitors in the ongoing voter registration exercise. Kandi Padambo, board member of CMD said this after Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chair Jane Ansah recently expressed concern that political parties were shunning […]