Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president, who is also the torchbearer for the nine political parties under the Tonse Alliance, Lazarus Chakwera using oratory skills honed on pulpit to plot an election victory on Wednesday took the campaign trail to the northern region border lakeshore district of Karonga to canvass votes for the fresh Presidential Polls […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Eastern Region governor Julius Paipi has said the governing party with its alliance partner the United Democratic Front (UDF) is likely to win the forthcoming fresh elections. Paipi made the remarks at rally he conducted at Katondo Ground in Mangochi West constituency where he also welcomed over 200 Malawi Congress Party […]
One of the greatest political problems of our age is the lack of transparency from the people or institutions that manage our public affairs. It is even scary when one of the institutions practicing lack of transparency is the group of people that have come together with an intention of getting into government and manage […]
The former State president Joyce Banda, who is also People’s Party (PP) president, has said there is no Covid-19, the strands of coronavirus pandemic in Malawi. Banda said this while addressing aTonse Alliance campaign rally in Nkhata-Bay together with opposition torchbearer for fresh presidential lections, Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) The former presiden […]
Commonwealth lawyers, judges and magistrates have added their voice to the chorus of concern that President Peter Mutharika continues to criticise the Judiciary following the nullification of the May 21 2019 presidential election results. A statement jointly issued by the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association (CMJA), Commonwealth Legal Education Association (Clea), Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) […]
Malawi government is set to table electoral bills for Parliament to decide whether to use 50+1 percent system of electing the country’s President of what has always been used First-Past-The-Post system. According to Constitution Amendment Bill Number 2 of 2020 seen by Nyasa Times as published in the Malawi Gzaette Supplement of June 8 2020, […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera who is pairing with the country’s estranged Vice-President Saulos Chilima for opposition grouping of nine parries called Tonse Alliance has challenged Malawians that he will be ready to resign as their leader if successfully voted into power amid the presidential rerun, once caught breaking the supreme law, the Constitutions which […]
In readiness for the fresh presidential elections, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has dispatched voters register to all districts for verification. The dispatchment exercise took place at the commission’s regional warehouse in Lilongwe. Speaking on Tuesday, MEC Central Region warehouse supervisor Rejoice Majoni said they have only dispatched voters register as part of the 48 […]
The Blantyre Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbytery (CCAP) has said Malawi needs a change of direction guiding the its flock a number of qualities of a good leader to be voted in the fresh presidential elections is the country is to transform for the better. Among other things, the Synod has strongly […]
Malawi Parliament has finally set June 23 2020 as the date for the fresh presidential elections, amid protests from the government side. Alliance for Democracy (Aford) Mzimba North MP Yeremia Chihana moved the motion setting poll date which wasseconded by Lilongwe Mpenu MP, Eisenhower Mkaka of Malawi Congress Party (MCP). However, the House erupted in […]
President Peter Mutharika has accused Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera of being the architecht of political violence in the country using the party’s supporters after declaring to “shed blood.” He said Malawi witnessed spate of political violence after the nullified May 21 2019 elections because Chakwera inaugurated it with his “I am ready […]
Mbakuwaku Movement for Development (MMD) president Peter Dominico Sinosi Driver Kuwani, has dismissed reports that he has withdrawn his candidature to support Tonse Alliance in the fresh presidential elections. On Monday, the social media was awash with reports purporting to say Kuwani had thrown in the towel and had since endorsed the opposition alliance of […]
The holding of the Constitutional Court sanctioned presidential election will be pushed beyond the July 3 deadline on technical shortfalls, Nyasa Times understands as government is set to present four electoral related bills on Wednesday . The court ruled in February that the May 2019 polls were deeply flawed, due to bias, lack of a […]
From a distance, the combined figures of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM—judged from last year’s botched elections, looks all pretty to Tonse Alliance. If you add Saulos Klaus Chilima and Lazarus Chakwera’s votes and compare them with President Peter Mutharika and Atupele Muluzi, the likely prediction is that Tonse Alliance is forming the next […]
Speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Gotani Hara has said Bills on electoral reforms – which will determine the date of fresh presidential elections – are ready and government will circulate them on Tuesday for discussion on Wednesday. The Speaker said this on Monday after Parliament resumed sitting since President Peter Mutharika’s State of the […]
Opposition under Tonse Alliance have ganged up to demand that the issue of the fresh presidential election date be tabled when parliament meets Monday afternoon. Member of Parliament (MP) for Dowa East Richard Chimwendo Banda and half a dozen other Malawi Congress Party (MCP) said this when they addressed a rally in Sunday in Dowa. “We want […]
The upfront talking judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal Dunstain Mwaungulu has defended the re-appointment of two Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners, saying it is good for continuity. President Peter Mutharika on Sunday retained his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) representatives Jean Mathanga and Angelina Kunje from immediate past cohort declared incompetent by the […]
Tonse Alliance torchbearer in the forthcoming fresh Lazarus Chakwera, who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader, has said he is ready to usher in the change Malawi needs among others to genuinely fight corruption, end nepotism and impunity – which he accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government of perpetuating the vices. Chakwera […]