Citizens for Transformation (CFT) – a people power movement – has alleged that the recent resignation of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah is a calculated move by the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the pollster to rig the forthcoming fresh presidential election. CFT Commander In Chief Timothy Mtambo says while his […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential torchbearer Lazarus Chakwera has advised people of Lower Shire to beware of empty promises being made by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government, saying the Tonse Alliance is their only hope to address issues affecting them such as lack economic empowerment of the youth through the establishment of National Youth […]
Vice President Salous Chilima has urged people of Lower Shire to vote for Tonse Alliance presidential ticket pair of torchbearer Lazarus Chakwera and him as running mate, saying the Tonse Alliance will ensure that there is steady market and better prices for cotton and address issue of hunger in the lower shire. Chilima, the country’s […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) says the sitting Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale is the worst legal advisor to the government and the biggest deterrent to the entrenchment of democracy and good governance in Malawi. HRDC chairperson Gift Trapance has also condemned Kaphale for allegedly choosing to play partisan politics through the advice it supposedly […]
A legal expert has said the Legal Affairs Committee has no powers to write the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to set date for the holding of the presidential election. This was after the Legal Affairs Committee of parliament chairperson Kezzie Msukwa confirmed having written MEC that the election be held on June 23, 2020. But […]
The gist of a political alliance, however big or small, is that all parties submit to a common route taking them to a set destination. In the case of opposition Tonse Alliance, being led by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera, their set destination, according to them, is to remove the incumbent government […]
Speaker of Parliament Catherane Gotani Hara says the National Assembly will meet from June 5 to July 24 for budget session, bringing a sigh of relief over the electoral reform bills needed to hold the court sanctioned fresh presidential election. The Speaker has called for the meeting of parliament after consulting the State President Peter […]
Mbakuwaku Movement for Development (MMD) has written Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) seeking the pollster’s justification to allow President Peter Mutharika and Lazarus Chakwera to participate in the forthcoming fresh presidential election with different running mates other than the ones they contested with in the May 2019 elections. MMD presidential torchbearer Peter Dominico Sinosi Driver Kuwani […]
A traditional leader has threatened to evict politicians from his area who use foul language against opponents during rallies ahead of the presidential election. Chief Kapelula on Monday called all politicians in his area to warn them that he would not allow trading of insults and slurs against each other as the country gears for […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-United Democratic Front (UDF) alliance running mate Atupele Muluzi says he is not going to be distracted with continued insults and slurs directed at him by the opposition Tonse Alliance. Atupele said this on Monday during a whistle-stop tour as opposition politicians in the opposition groupihn took turns at Njamba Freedom Park […]
State House says President Peter Mutharika will this week inform the Judicial Service Commission on the appointment of a Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson following the resignation of Jane Ansah. Presidential spokesperson Mgeme Kalilani could however not give the exact day when the letter would be given to the commission as dates for the June […]
Attorney General (AG) has said the June 23 polling date is not set and has advised the Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee that the resolutions the committee made after their consultations with stakeholders, including Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), were errors of law, saying it is the whole National Assembly that can decide on voting day not […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful representing the opposition Tonse Alliance, Lazarus Chakwera has urged Malawians to vote for him as the country next leader , saying election victory will inflict final blow on the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which he said underutilized his running mate Salous Chilima as State Vice President. Speaking to […]
Vice President Salous Chilima has disclosed part of the deal of Tonse Alliance is that if they win the fresh presidential elections, will not just be the second-in-command but the country’s purse keeper as Minister of Finance. The torchbearer of Tonse Alliance, Lazarus Chakwera, who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president corroborated by adding that […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general Elsenhower Mkaka on Monday viciously attacked Atupele Muluzi, who is also running mate to President Peter Mutharika in the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and UDF Alliance, calling him names during a opposition Tonse Alliance televised rally at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre. In his campaign speech at the rally, […]
Mbakuwaku Movement for Development (MMD) leader Peter Dominico Sinosi Driver Kuwani has intensified use of modern technology to garner votes in the forthcoming fresh presidential election scheduled for June 23, 2020. Unlike his contenders, Dr. Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Alliance and Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika who will represent the […]
Former Sports and Culture minister Phillip Bwanali has said he is behind the Tonse Alliance, a grouping of opposition parties ahead of the court-ordered fresh presidential election tentatively set for June 23. Tonse Alliance is headed by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera whose running mate is the country’s estranged vice-president Saulos Chilima, the […]
Political analysts have observed that Catholic bishops in their renewed call for a new era through its pastoral letter have not endorsed any presidential candidate ahead of the court-ordered fresh presidential election tentatively set for June 23, but the influential church is calling out issues that need to be addressed. The Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM)—a […]