Eight registered political parties without a single seat in Parliament have been hit with hefty fines of between K3 million and K5 million after being caught flouting the rules laid out under the Political Parties Act — including operating without proper offices and failing to keep their records up to date. Registrar of Political Parties […]
Centre for Multi-party Democracy (CMD) has decried the delay by the government to fill the vacancy in the office of a Registrar of Political Parties, saying this is hampering efforts to bring about sanity in the operations of political parties in the country. CMD Executive Director Kizito Tenthani, speaking in a special radio programme, on […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has cautioned party monitors to be vigilant and knowledgeable with the Election Day processes as one way of ending the existing rigging allegations as it has launched a nationwide training sessions for 1 5000 party monitors. Speaking during a training for party monitors in Rumphi, CMD Programs officer, Deborah Mitawa, said […]
Centre for Multi-Party Democracy (CDM) Executive Director Kizito Tenthani has said political parties contesting in the May 21 Tripartite Elections have a Political Parties Act obligation to disclose publicly the sources of their private funding for the campaign. Tenthani said this in Mzuzu on Friday during the launch of the voter education by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has warned that political parties which fails to participate in elections risks deregistration. CMD executive director Kizito Tenthani said CMD is just waiting for a report from the registrar of political parties which has already asked political parties to give evidence that they had been participating in elections. “If the […]
Politicians from both the ruling and the opposition parties in Mangochi have agreed to end the escalating political violence which is a deterrent to a free, fair and credible 2019 highly contentious elections. Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) organized the one day highly successful political indaba in the lake shore violence hot spot district after […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has embarked on massive civic education on the new Political Party law which came into effect on December 1, warning failure to adhere to the requirements would lead to the deregistration of parties. CMD executive director Kizito Tenthani is visiting districts where he is meeting district party leaders to sensitize […]
The Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has lobbied members of Parliament pass the Political Parties Bill during its current meeting, saying the organisation strongly believes the legislation is set to transform the country’s political landscape. CMD is a platform for dialogue on political parties in Malawi which sets out to contribute towards consolidation of multiparty […]
Family, journalists, the Catholic clergy and politicians have paid tribute to celebrated Malawian international journalist and columnist Ralphael Tenthani, who died in an ill-fated car crash in May 2015. On Saturday, Tenthani’s imposing black-granite topped tombstone was unveiled in his final resting place at Agabu village in senior chief Ganya in Ntcheu, just after Balaka […]
Centre for Multiparty Democracy, a multi party liaison committee on democracy, has told President Peter Mutharika that there is need to have a law that compels political parties in the country to declare their assets and disclose their source of funding. CMD executive director Kizito Tenthani said this was necessitated by confessions of convict Oswald […]
Most members of parliament say they would not be comfortable to pass a law that would stop politicians from giving out handouts during elections. Centre for Multiparty Democracy, in its quest to bring sanity during elections, is pushing for that law. According to CMD executive director Kizito Tenthani, the main aim of the law is […]
Giving handouts by political parties may be banned come 2019 elections if proposals by Centre Multiparty Democracy (CMD) are taken on board and enacted into law. CMD with funding from Tilitonse is championing the review of the Political Parties Registration and Regulation) Act, the review has culminated into a draft bill that aims to repeal […]
A cross section of Malawians are calling for an investigation into the car crash that killed prominent journalist Raphael Tenthani, but Malawians are being urged not to jump to conclusions about the cause. Speculations that the crash that killed Tenthani was not an accident were inevitable given the history of political murders in the country […]
Center for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has said it will continue engaging in discussions with the government to ensure that the proposed political parties bill is tabled in parliament. The bill which seeks to repeal the political parties Registration and Regulation Act and replace it with a new law is expected to address challenges faced by […]
Malawi’s leading media house, Nation Publication Limited (NP) through its title, Nation on Sunday indicated that its nationwide analysis of opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), People’s Party (PP) and UDF dossiers of electoral complaints indicate the outcome of the May 20 elections was based on fraudulent results. The paper said in its report that its […]