Malawi is yet to register a single case of the coronavirus, but a health system in decay and a tumultuous political crisis has left the country bracing for a nightmare if — or when — the virus arrives. Authorities are yet to ban travel or stop large gatherings, despite the virus edging closer. Neighbouring Zambia […]
It’s thoroughly confusing why President Peter Mutharika has made no changes to the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) after the Malawi Constitutional Court earlier this year ruled against its handling of the May 2019 presidential elections. Confident MEC – workers illegally used correction fluid Tipp-ex to alter poll results — had rigged the election, main opposition […]
New ministers are expected to be announced as President Peter Mutharika freshens his Cabinet – a break away from lean team – in an attempt to convince voters that his administrations has the energy, ideas and talent for government. Mutharika dissolved Cabinet last week a move political analysts believe is to incorporate Democratic Progressive Party […]
President Peter Mutharika has said the recommendation by members of Parliament’s Public Appointments Committee (PAC) to fire Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners—including embattled chairperson Jane Ansah—for alleged incompetence and mismanagement of the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections, is “specious and laughable.” Mutharika said in a statement issued by Presidential Press Secretary Mgeme Kalilani explaining […]
State House has confirmed as earlier reported by Nyasa Times that President Peter Mutharika has refused to assent to the electoral reforms bills passed in Parliament in February this year which technically means the presidential fresh elections slated for May 19 2020 will have to be rescheduled. Presidential press secretary Mgeme Kalilani told a news […]
Legal and governance experts have questioned the credibility of the embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah and her fellow commissioners to manage the forcoming frsh presidential elections. Electoral stakeholders told Ansah and commissioners at the National Elections Consultative Forum (Necof) meeting in Blantyre on Friday that they have no trust in the current […]
President Peter Mutharika has refused to assent to Electoral Bills recently passed in Parliament setting fresh elections on May 19 , a source in the Office of President and Cabinet has told Nyasa Times. Malawi’s parliament in February passed the electoral reforms bills, which paves the way for fresh elections after on February 3, the […]
UTM Party president Saulos Chilima on Sunday moved in to assure anxious party supporters that he has not given them a raw deal in the grand political alliance with the main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), saying they share the common goal of rebuilding the country. “You should have trust in me. I think […]
State vice-president Dr Salous Klaus Chilima on Sunday said UTM remains the hope of the country as the party has mega plans to rebuild the country and that programmes contained in its manifesto will be incorporated into a grand opposition alliance package that will be unveiled on Thursday this week. Speaking to a mammoth crowd […]
UTM Party secretary general (SG) Patricia Kaliati has piled pressure at President Peter Mutharika to sign election reforms bills passed by parliament. Malawi’s parliament in February passed the electoral reforms bills, which paves the way for fresh elections after the constitutional court nullified the May polls. The court cited massive irregularities in the vote, which saw Mutharika […]
UTM Party president Saulos Chilima has assured that the ‘grand alliance’ that the party is going into with Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and other parties is a well thought through decision and they should believe in it, saying ‘ wind of change has come’ as the country prepares fresh presidential elections. Chilima, 46, who is […]
Various speakers at UTM Party rally at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre on Sunday focussed their speeches on various issues affecting the country and how the party is geared to address the challenges, unlike a similar rally by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a week ago at the same venue that was dominated by obsence […]
Any Malawian who was in the country during the three decades of dictatorship can remember well the sacrifices people made to get rid of the system. Therefore, it is naive for any political leader to think that people of Malawi still have an appetite for dictatorship. To show that the system is bad, no leader […]
Quasi-religious body, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has expressed its concern over president Peter Mutharika’s delays to assent to the electoral reform bills into law, saying the country is racing against time for the Constitutional Court sanctioned fresh presidential election. The electoral reform laws will guide the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) in the holding of […]
Sunday’s rally by UTM Party president Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima at Njamba Freedom Park has got a welcome boost with the announcement that Umodzi Party has joined the UTM-Malawi Congress Party (MCP) alliance. UP president Professor John Chisi speaking at the rally said he hasi joined the grand alliance to help do away with tribalism and […]
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri says Malawi is heading towards a disturbing type of regional fragmentation if politicians continue to form electoral alliances based on regions ahead of the fresh presidential election tentatively set for May 19. The leader of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church made the remark in Times Exclusive television interview he had with […]
Embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah has said Malawi lawyers issued a resounding rejection of the commission to represent it in the presidential election annulment appeal at the Supreme Court hence they hired South African lawyers to cost the tax-payer a whopping K600 million (USD 788,500). Ansah told delegates to the National Elections Consultative Forum (Necof) […]
Former president Joyce Banda’s People’s Party (PP) and Freedom Party say the coming in of UTM into the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) alliance is a political game changer on the country’s political terrain. Freedom Party president Khumbo Kachali – the former State vice-president – said UTM has now fulfilled aspirations of Malawians by accepting to […]