Jessies Kabwira saying less than you know is great. I open today with an editorial of one of the newspapers I admire in Africa, the Post of Zambia. This week as I pondered on the comical approach to politics by the Malawi Congress Party, I found an inspiration from their editorial. Part of it reads: […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Chairman Justice Maxon Mbendera is suspected of helping opposition Malawi Congress party (MCP) with hefty sums of money deposited into the party’s bank accounts. Suspicion of Mbendera bankrolling MCP comes when his Secretary was sent to do deposits in various MCP Bank accounts. Nyasa Times has information that on April 10, […]
The European Union has deployed an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to Malawi, in response to an invitation by the country’s Electoral Commission. This is the third time that the European Union is observing elections in Malawi (previously in 2004 and 2009), which reflects the EU’s long term commitment to supporting credible, transparent and inclusive elections […]
The recently released 2014 elections campaign media coverage monitoring report by Media Monitoring Project has confirmed something I said on this forum last October. Apart from Malawi Broadcasting Corporation, which illegally works and campaigns for the incumbency, news bias is not always a deliberate policy by journalists and their organisations. Bias is often to do […]
It’s that time of the year, when everybody has something to say. Thank God we have lived through four elections of 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009. The 2014, by his will, we should see and wave good bye in a few days’ time. Everyone has become experts and branding each other “liar” seems to be […]
Some aspiring Parliamentary candidates in Kasungu and most parts of the northern region are facing difficulties to convince voters to vote for them as the National Initiative for Civic Education (nice) political debates expose their weaknesses including failure to speak English. NICE which is a leading organization providing civic education on the forthcoming elections has […]
President Joyce Banda has topped an opinion poll survey Nyasa Times Media conducted through its correspondents in face-to-face interviews with sampled registered voters and also an online voting poll. The poll interview surveyed more than 60,000 people throughout the country and majority of them put the incumbent Head of State ahead of Lazarous Chakwera of MCP, Atupele Muluzi […]
For the first time in the history of democracy Malawi, the country will hold presidential candidates debates which are slated for April 22 and 29 and May 6, 2014 organised by the National Media Institute of Southern Africa – Malawi Chapter – and approved by Malawi Electoral Commission. MEC commissioner for Media, Civic and Voter […]
Tisintha Alliance has asked Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), to guide a grouping of six political parties on replacement of presidential running mate following the resignation of Reverend Sylvester Chabuka. Chabuka, president of Congress for National Unity (Conu), resigned last week claiming failure to make progress within the alliance. The alliance secretary general Jane Rose Anthony […]
Constituents in most parts of Lilongwe are demanding to know how the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) is administered saying they haven’t seen any impact on their socio-economic status since it was introduced and claim that legislators does not involve them casting doubts as to their motive. The development has come clear during public debates that […]
Presidential candidate Peter Mutharika of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which governed Malawi from 2004 to April 2012 when his brother president Bingu wa Mutharika died at the climax of poor governance and economic woes, said on Saturday that he strongly believes his party will reclaim victory in the May 20 Tripartite elections. Mutharika was speaking at […]
The media in Malawi has been asked to level the playing field in its reporting in the run up to the country’s May 20 tripartite elections. The call comes from a media monitoring and evaluation unit established to monitor fairness and accuracy in reporting the May 20 presidential, parliamentary and local government polls. According to […]
Those individuals from the opposition or civil society that have made it a habit to hallucinate at every turn about the possible rigging of the coming elections should do this country a favour. They should simply bring evidence so that we all act on it now before it is too late. But without evidence they […]
Two parliamentary and one local government candidates have penned the country’s pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) asking it to fire a presiding officer whom they accused of bias. The trio namely Uncle Jose Lenard Njikho and Dan Msowoya for Mzuzu City Constituency and Goodwin John Mvula for Mchengautuwa West Ward in a jointly signed […]
Vice presidential candidate to President of Mafunde, George Nnesa, in the May 20 2014 Tripartite Elections under the umbrella of Tisintha Alliance six-party coalition, Reverend Sylvester Chabuka, has resigned. Tisintha Alliance has six parties which are, Malawi Forum for Unity and Development (Mafunde), New Republican Party (NRP), Republican Party (RP), Congress for National Unity (Conu), […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has cautioned all interested parties in the electoral process to refrain from commending on electoral issues they don’t know or understand. In an interview, MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa expressed dismay towards remarks by the Forum for National Development (FND) suggesting that the elections date should be changed due to a […]
The public service broadcaster, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has promised to stop rebroadcasting presidential rallies where the President was campaigning. The commitment is among several changes and reforms which MBC has made in response to the accusation of its unfair coverage of contesting political parties in the 20 May elections. Several stakeholders in the electoral process has […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is resuming the inspection of voters roll which was suspended few weeks ago as it has now worked on the inconsistencies that were discovered. The inconsistencies included a mismatch of photos and names and missing of names in the voters roll. Chief Election Officer Willies Kalonga said in a statement […]