Probably whoever said ‘imfa siithawika’ (death is inescapable) did not lie! Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Commissioners at the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioners, Linda Kunje and Dr. Jean Mathanga, might have successfully challenged rescission of their appointment at the High Court, but they have fallen short of maintaining their seats they heard dear to. On […]
“…Pay their honorarium” The High Court in Blantyre on Friday ordered President Lazarus Chakwera to immediately reinstate two embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioners Jean Mathanga and Linda Kunje. The court has further ordered government to pay honorarium to the two mentioned MEC commissioners starting from the month they stopped receiving these benefits. Apart from […]
Two Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners are defiantly working at the pollster despite moves by the Lazarus Chakwera administration to remove themselves. Commissioners Jean Mathanga and Linda Kunje are under pressure from the government to resign in their positions at MEC. However, they all seem to be undaunted. This morning, Kunje […]
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has urged President Lazarus Chakwera to reject a recommendation by the parliamentary Public Affairs Committee (PAC) to fire two DPP Malawi Electoral Commission commissioners, Jean Mathanga and Linda Kunje on the grounds that it was unjust. “I am utterly dismayed and disappointed by the recommendation,” said Nankhumwa […]
Parliament’s Public Appointments Committee (PAC) has recommended to president Lazarus Chakwera to fire two Malawi Electoral Commissioners who represent the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The committee made the recommendations after noting that both the Constitutional Court ruling had the Supreme Court ruling on the election case found the Jane Ansah commission incompetent. A member […]
Attorney General Dr. Chikosa Silungwe gave a legal opinion to Office of President and Cabinet to formally write appointment letters for two Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioners Linda Kunje and Jean Mathanga. Kunje and Mathanga were part of the MEC Commissioners who administered the May 21 2019 Presidential Election that was nullified by five judges […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioner Linda Kunje has entered a plea of “not guilty” to charges the State levelled against her for allegedly obstructing President Lazarus Chakwera’s convoy on Thursday. Kunje, who handed herself to police on Monday after the Eastern Region Police Headquarters in Zomba launched a manhunt for her, took the plea when […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioner Linda Kunje who handed herself to Eastern Region police headquarters in Zomba on Monday will on Tuesday appear before the Zomba Magistrate Court to be formally charged with an offence of ‘conduct likely to cause breach of peace’ Kunje, a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) – sponsored MEC commissioner, spent last […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioner Linda Kunje has said she is not hiding and there is no need for Malawi Police to blow out of proportion that they are hunting to arrest her for allegedly obstructing President Lazarus Chakwera’s convoy on Thursday. Eastern Region Police spokesperson Joseph Sauka said Kunje defied traffic police orders to […]
Malawi Police in Blantyre have arrested a driver for Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioner Linda Kunje on charges of obstructing a presidential convoy. The driver, Jones Teres, driving the official MEC vehicle registration number MG 148 AK is said to have failed to give the right of way to president Lazarus Chakwera’s convoy on Thursday […]
Four Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners have received summons from the High Court to explain how they were appointed and they are meeting their lawyers on the matter. This was revealed by MEC chairperson Dr Chifundo Kachale during the Thursday night press briefing in Lilongwe. “I can confirm that four commissioners are not present here […]
High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda on Monday granted leave for opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera to move for judicial review against the appointment of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners Linda Kunje and Jean Mathanga. President Peter Mutharika retained the two commissioners from a MEC team which Parliament deemed incompetent in the […]
UTM publicist Joseph Chidanthi Malunga says Tonse alliance will be challenging the reappointment of two commissioners from the immediate past cohort declared incompetent by the courts into the new constituted Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). President Peter Mutharika on Sunday hired a new MEC which saw Jean Mathanga and Angellina Kunje back at the pollster. But […]
The upfront talking judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal Dunstain Mwaungulu has defended the re-appointment of two Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners, saying it is good for continuity. President Peter Mutharika on Sunday retained his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) representatives Jean Mathanga and Angelina Kunje from immediate past cohort declared incompetent by the […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) outspoken commissioner Linda Kunje has said the commissioner, including its chairperson, Justice Jane Ansah, will not resign until they finish their contract in late June this year despite the Supreme Court of Appeal unanimously agreed that the management of the 2019 cancelled elections failed to meet constitutional tests due to a […]
One of the commissioners at Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), Linda Kunje has amplified the call by some electoral stakeholders that the court should to scrub out the results of the parliamentary elections and order fresh elections as it did in annulling presidential election, saying the correction fluid Tipp-ex that was used to alter results and […]
Malawi Parliament’s Public Appointments Committee (PAC) which is conducting a court sanctioned inquiry for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) on Tuesday afternoon sent out of the hearing room commissioner Linda Kunje for rudeness to the legislators. As she stormed out of the room at parliament building in Lilongwe, she slammed the exit door in anger […]
Malawi Electoral Commission(MEC) has urged the country’s media to be watchful when reporting opinion polls to avoid voter aparthy during the May 21 2019 watershed elections. MEC Commissioner Linda Kunje made the remarks when she officially opened a 3-day elections reporting training for community journalists in Lilongwe. Commissioner Kunje observed that some dubious opinion polls are […]