President Peter Mutharika has accepted Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah’s resignation request, Presidential spokesperson Mgeme Kalilani has said. Ansah tendered her resignation, a year after elections that were annulled by the Constitutional Court and this month the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the lower court. Kalilani said on Friday that President […]
A law expert has said the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah just weeks into a crucial presidential election has plunged the country into yet another electoral crisis. Justin Dzonzi of Justice Link says it will not be possible for a new commission to hold an election in two weeks’ time. The […]
Major opposition parties have lukewarmly welcomed the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah, saying it is ill timed as Malawians are expected to go into polls on June 23 to select a new State president in the fresh elections. Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka said the party is not […]
Legal experts have said the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah from her position has pushed the country into a constitutional criris with barely 42 days to the final countdown of the court ordered 150 days to hold the fresh presidential election. Ansah—a judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal— who […]
Actually, Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah —a judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal—was just supposed to tender her resignation, pack her things and, like Dambudzo Marechera, leave. But her resignation, on that Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) television exclusive interview on Thursday, was totally ambiguous. “I have written the appointing authority to […]
The country’s estranged Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who is running mate to Tonse Alliance torch-bearer Lazarus Chakwera, has welcomed the resignation of the embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah just a month to go before the country holds a court-ordered fresh presidential election. Chilima was speaking Friday during his trade mark Imbizos starting with Mvera […]
Minister of Disaster Management Affairs Everton Chimulirenji has hit back at the country’s estranged vice-president Saulos Chilima, saying he is no longer the second-in-command because of the UTM president. Chimulirenji said this on Thursday in Dedza when he accompanied President Peter Mutharika’s running mate in the Constitutional Court sanctioned fresh presidential election, Atupele Muluzi. He […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera has urged people to turn out in large numbers to vote in the fresh presidential elections and elect him as next Head of State with Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who is his running mate to Tonse Alliance. Chakwera said this when he conducted whistle-stop rallies in Lilongwe under the […]
The Msungama brothers, Kondi and Mike, have given Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera a boost with a donation of five vehicles which will be vital during the campaign period for the fresh presidential elections. Kondi Msungama is second deputy spokesperson of MCP while Mike Msungama, a businessman, is a staunch supporter and […]
First Lady Getrude Mutharika said the combination of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) is a sign that this team will win resoundingly in the fresh presidential election next month. The First Lady made the remarks on Thursday when she and a wife to the DPP- UDF runing mate Atupele Muluzi, Angella […]
Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima (SKC), who is also running mate to Lazarus Chakwera in the opposition Tonse Alliance has hit back at the DPP-UDF alliance for repeatedly saying that Chakwera is inexperienced politician to lead Malawi. Speaking at Mpondagaga in Nkhotakota at his 5th whistle-stop campaign tour, Chilima urged people to vote for Chakwera […]
Minister of Disaster Management Affairs and Public Events, Everton Chimulirenji has made his debut appearance on the campaign trail with President Peter Mutharika’s running mate Atupele Muluzi, dismissing assertions by opposition that he was grumbling for being dropped as running mate, saying in fact he was fired up to support the Mutharika-Atu ticket. Chimulirenji was […]
Legal Affairs committee of parliament has endorsed the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) proposal that the court sanctioned fresh presidential election be held on June 23 2020 and not July 2. This followed a meeting which the committee held Thursday in Lilongwe with MEC commissioners and Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale. Chairperson of Legal Affairs Committee Kezzie […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima, who is also running mate to Dr. Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in the Tonse Alliance on Thursday embarked on a nine stop Imbizo tour of Nkhotakota to canvass votes for the July 2 fresh presidential election, promising that the price of fertiliser will be reduced to an amount every […]
Social media or even mainstream media has since pictures of campaign rallies ahead of the July 2 fresh presidential election. Impressive for both camps if the attendance of political rallis is anything to go by, but a major concern for public health. I cannot help but picture a scenario where one asymptomatic member on a […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) executive members Wednesday asked all political parties in the country to practice violence free and issue-based campaign in preparation for the July 2, 2020 fresh presidential election. Speaking in Mzuzu during an interactive meeting with the party’s districts’ and constituencies’ officials drawn from northern region, DPP’s Secretary General, Greselder […]
The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal is on May 28 expected to rule on a case in which the High Court ruled that there should be a fresh election in Mangochi West constituency. Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) appealed against the High Court ruling for the fresh election. MEC announced that Geoffrey Melaka Chiwondo, a Democratic […]
Speaker of National Assembly Catherane Gotani Hara says she wrote President Peter Mutharika long ago asking him to call for a meeting of parliament which would fix a date for the forthcoming Constitutional Court sanctioned fresh presidential election. In an interview, Hara says she followed the official channel of consulting the President on the matter. […]