Newly appointed Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners on Friday met President Peter Mutharika at Sanjika palace in Blantyre as the pollster seeks to directly engage presidential candidates on anticipated logistical challenges and possible mitigation measures. President Mutharika was accompanied by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) secretary general Grezelder Jeffrey, director of Elections Ben Phiri, National […]
It is exactly one year since the electorates went to polls in the May 21, 2019 Tripartite Elections that both the Constitutional Court and Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal (MSCA) nullified due to serious irregularities committed by the country’s pollster Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). The nullification came about following the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader […]
Government has allocated K29 billion towards June 23 court-sanctioned Fresh Presidential Election. Presenting the 2020/21 National Budget in Lilongwe on Friday, Minister of Finance Economic Planning and Development Joseph Mwanamvekha said government will foot the budget on its owing to non-committal from the donors. “Madam Speaker, to show commitment to conduct the fresh presidential elections […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who is also running mate to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera in the Tonse Alliance, on Friday continued with his campaign trails in Ntcheu, urging people to vote for Chakwera if meaningful development is to come to the district. Chilima, who is also UTM Party leader, had to to cancel […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has resolved that the printing of printing papers should commence immediately ahead of the June 23 polls. The MEC chairperson, Chifundo Kachale, says this follows the identification of the printer and also publishing in the Gazette the 23rd June, 2020 as the date of polling for the fresh Presidential Elections. He said […]
Dowa East legislator Richard Chimwendo Banda (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) has said MCP presidential hopeful Dr Lazarus Chakwera the torchbearer for the grand opposition Tonse alliance with Vice-President Saulos Chilima of UTM Party as his running, are heading for victory in the court-sanctioned fresh presidential elections slated for June 23. Chimwendo Banda said this in Parliament […]
Ben Phiri, who is Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) director of elections, has said the ruling party with its alliance partner United Democratic Front (UDF) is ready for fresh presidential elections slated for June 23. Phiri said in Parliament that while DPP-UDF alliance is ready to secure […]
The National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE) Trust, Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) and the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) have agreed to undertake a joint voter education and election observation for the fresh presidential election. The forthcoming poll follows the nullification of the May 2019 presidential election by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) and […]
State Vice President Saulos Chilima, who is also running mate to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera in the opposition Tonse Alliance has appealed to Malawians not to be deceived that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government will give them loans with 11 days before fresh polls. Addressing crowds that turned up his Imbizos […]
The Mbakuwaku Movement for Development (MMD) presidential candidate for the forthcoming fresh presidential election, Peter Dominico Sinosi Driver Kuwani, has declared that his party has entered into an alliance with poor Malawians who have been craving for justice and true love for mankind. The declaration comes a few days after Kuwani rejected reports that circulated […]
Hot-headed Mzimba North MP Yeremiah Chihana (Alliance for Democracy-Aford) on Wednesday branded Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Bright Msaka as “ignorant” of the laws. This was after Msake proposed a Constitutional Amendment Bill with a multiple choice-modelled proposal for members of Parliament (MPs) to decide whether the winner of the presidential election should be […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) which is in electoral alliance with the governing Democratic Party (DPP) has stuck to its liberal democracy policy and supported government Constitution Amendment Bill which proposed electoral reforms, but it will not back proposal to remove the 50%+1 system of electing the president as already interpreted by the court. UDF leader […]
At this point, it’s foolhardy to, anxiously, be worried with the question of #Tivotanso [ fresh presidential elections] or not. The answer to that question, as of today, is fair and squared: #Tivotanso. Opposition driven parliament, on Tuesday, set June 23 as polling day; though government side isn’t happy about it. However, the issue, here, […]
The Synod of Livingstonia under the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) will have all its offices, Departments and institutions closed from the 22nd June to 24th June, 2020 to allow people prepare and vote well. This has been disclosed in an official communique dated 10th June, 2020, signed by the Synod’s General Secretary, Reverend […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopedul Lazarus Chakwera has said job creation, one among major priorities the alliance will embark on within a year once ushered into power in the forthcoming 23rd June, 2020 Fresh Presidential Election (FPE). Chakwera, who was addressing people during a whistle stop tour in Chitipa district, lamented on the stampede […]
The opposition lawmakers said they rejected a Constitutional Amendment Bill brought by government because there was no need to change the country’s supreme laws to hold the court-sanctioned fresh presidential elections on June 23 after the House had already passed resolutions on the said polling date. Leader of opposition in Parliament Lobin Lowe justified the […]
Parliament’s rejection of an electoral reform bill – Constitutional Amendment – that would have facilitated the June 23 2020 voting and modalities for holding of a fresh presidential election will essentially make it not legally possible to hold the polls on the said date, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Bright Msaka has said. Msaka […]
President Peter Mutharika’s running mate in the forthcoming fresh presidential election, Atupele Muluzi on Wednesday took a break from the campaign trail and visited people that were shot during the whistle-stop tour, Vice-President, Saulos Chilima held in Machinga district last week. Chilima, who is UTM president and running-mate to Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party […]