Hitting out at Atupele Muluzi the running mate to President Peter Mutharika in the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and UDF alliance, for his remarks in which he seemed to suggest that the late Malawi Police Service Superintendent Usumani Imedi was killed during protests at Msundwe last year because he was a Muslim from Mangochi, […]
Voter Verification exercise at Mzenga Centre in Mchinji North Constituency has been suspended following an attack from angry villagers who protested against Forestry officers who allegedly destroyed their crops. It is reported that Mchinji Forestry officials on Monday destroyed crops at Mzenga Village, accusing the communities of cultivating in the forest reserve area. According to […]
Vice President Salous Chilima, who is Tonse Alliance running mate, is this week hitting the rural hitherlands of Nkhotatakota and Salima with more whistle stops campaign meetings popularly known as imbizos to garner support for the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) torchbearer Lazarous Chakwera. Chilima last week held highly patronised imbizos in Ntcheu, Dedza, Lilongwe, Dowa […]
The opposition Tonse Alliance on Wednesday apprehended 17 panga-wielding youth who wanted to cause violence at its campaign tour in Blantyre which included Citizens for Transformation (CFT) People Power Movement leader Timothy Mtambo. Malawi Congress Party (MCP) director of campaign Moses Kunkuyu said the panga-wielding youth were hired by the regime to disturb and harm Tonse Alliance […]
Political experts say the continued absence of President Peter Mutharika in the heated campaign ahead of the Constitutional Court sanctioned fresh presidential election on July 2 might affect his re-election bid. Mutharika has been on self-imposed lockdown at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre amidst the coronavirus pandemic fears as he has not held any political rally […]
Businessperson Leston Mulli has come out of his political cocoon to drum support for President Peter Mutharika ahead of the crucial and decisive Constitutional Court sanctioned fresh presidential election on July 2. Mulli, who is also Mulhako wa Alhomwe board of trustees chairperson, joined other top Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) top officials in Mzimba where […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima has applied to Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda to have the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) case heard before the Constitutional Court. Khumbo Soko, one of the lawyers for Chilima, said they met with Lilongwe High court registrar and presiding judge of the case, Ruth Chinangwa to prepare files for the case to […]
Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has summoned the embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah and Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale on Thursday over a new date for the fresh presidential elections. MEC proposed the new vote should take place on July 2 2020 but also changed tune that Parliament should consider moving it to June 23 2020. Legal […]
National Registration Bureau has ruled out allowing Malawi Congress Party (MCP) experts into the pollster voter register data base, saying the opposition has the data already. MCP politicians say they fear the data base has been manipulated to add more voters who would vote for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party DPP) presidential candidate President Peter […]
Grassroots political party leadership may be without formal authority and power to create change but certainly have the necessary influence over local citizens to communicate government policy and shape local people’s thinking, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president (responsible for the South) Kondwani Nankhumwa has said. “As a party, DPP is taking deliberate steps to step up […]
After a tour of Phalombe on his ongoing whistle-stop campaign trail on 18 May, 2020, Atupele Austin (AA) Muluzi the running mate to President Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive (DPP) reached Limbuli Trading Centre at dusk. Although it was late, there was a mammoth of people who patiently waited for his arrival. A spot […]
The opposition Tonse Alliance is taking the campaign of its presidential candidate, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera, to the doorstep with former and incumbent Karonga Central constituency parliamentarians Frank Mwenifumbo and Dr. Cornelius Mwalwanda setting aside their political rivalry for the canvassing strategy. Mwalwanda and Mwenifumbo were accompanied by People’s Party (PP) vice […]
A governance expert has warned that Treasury failure to release money to the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for the Constitutional Court sanctioned presidential election might affect the quality and calendar of the poll. National Integrity Platform national coordinator Jeff Kabondo has said this after MEC announced it is struggling to raise K23 billion for the smooth […]
Low turnout has marred the voters roll verification exercise as the first phase of the exercise ends Tuesday in some parts of the central and northern regions. The opposition Tonse Alliance, which comprises of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), UTM, People’s Party and six other tiny parties put up a campaign to pursuade voters to […]
National Initiative for Civic Education (Nice) Trust has said that the absence of political party monitors at centres during Phase Three of processing transfers and issue of duplicate voter certificates to those who lost them is a threat to credible elections. A continuous visit to most of the centers Neno district District Election Supervisory Team […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Ben Phiri said Malawians should not make a mistake of voting into power a party which voted against multiparty democracy in 1994. Phiri, who is also director of elections for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was speaking this on Sunday in Neno during a whistle stop tour at Neno […]
The campaign season for the July 2 [or June 23] Fresh President Elections is in full swing and, already, daggers are drawn. It’s a war of two alliances, each with a strong base of voters but to win these elections, the battle comes down to swing voters. Both alliances have an election to win or […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it has concluded verifying and validating names of the candidates to contest in the forthcoming fresh presidential election and it will be a race for three. The fresh poll has been necessitated following the nullification of the May 21 2019 election by the Constitutional Court on February 3 2020 […]