The High Court in Blantyre has ordered the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to do vote recounting in Lilongwe City South East Constituency after one candidate who lost in the previous elections applied to the court for the same. The candidate, Ulemu Msungama was contesting for the parliamentary seat on a Malawi Congress Party (MCP) ticket […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said elections results from Malawi Electoral Support Network (MESN) Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) data centre gave relief to the commission amid the electoral chaos experienced in the May 20 tripartite elections. MEC chairperson Justice Maxon Mbendera has since called for the institutionalization of the PVT initiative. He said it was better that […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Lilongwe Msodzi South, Vitus Dzoole Mwale, and told parliament that President Peter Mutharika was ruling through a stolen votes but that their party leader Rev Lazarous Chakwera urged them not to react to avoid plunging the nation into turmoil. In his contribution to the State of the Nation Address delivered by President […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Dedza East, Juliana Lunguzi has urged lawmakers to consider amending the electoral law on electing a Head of State from the current first-past-the-post and adopt a 50 per cent plus one law to ensure that the winner of presidential elections enjoyed majority support. She said a national leader that […]
After days of merry-making and savoring the countryside, the European Union (EU) Mission which assessed the conduct of the first ever tripartite elections in Malawi on May 20, 2014, has come up with an election verdict, which, unfortunately, comes across like some sort of a spontaneous afterthought, according to a social and political commentator, Jill […]
The Free Expression Institute (FEI) in Malawi is running an essay writing competition in which it calls on university students to analyse the 2014 tripartite elections and suggest ways of making future poll free of controversies. FEI National Coordinator, Peter Kumwenda said Saturday in Lilongwe that it is the view of the institute that through […]
In what would have been an opportunity to mend with everyone after her downfall in the last elections where she was left highly bruised, Her Excellency the former president, Dr. Joyce Banda faults the media for her image and reputation. In a direct address to the nation through his Facebook page, which has over 500,000 […]
Chief Elections Officer for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Willie Kalonga has described as misleading and misrepresentation of fact the local daily article he was quoted having partly blaming the Malawi donor partners for the challenges that were faced during the polling period. Under a headline “Donors exposed” that appeared in the Nation on Sunday […]
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 […]
Former Zambian president Rupiah Banda has commended Malawi for holding democratic and peaceful elections. Banda said this yesterday on arrival at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe. He said, unlike other elections that are associated with chaos, Malawians voted peacefully and remained calm until the time the results were announced. “I would like to congratulate […]
The just concluded 2014 presidential elections results, just like those of 1994, 1999 and 2004, do not inspire confidence; in fact they do provide a challenge for genuine democracy to thrive in Malawi – as in most African countries where the first past the post rule is still used. So delicate is this system that […]
President Prof. Peter Mutharika has said Malawi is one family and as the nation’s father, he will be everyone’s President irrespective of one’s political affiliation or for whom one cast their vote. The new head of state was speaking Wednesday afternoon at Biwi Triangle in Lilongwe during a whistle stop tour on his return from […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday took a whistle stop tour from commercial capital Blantyre to administrative capital Lilongwe, about 360km, addressing people along the way, thanking them for electing him President as well as promising to deliver. Speaking to supporters at Biwi Triangle in Lilongwe at the end of his trip, President Mutharika, the […]
Former ruling People’s Party (PP) has made a scathing attack on Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson, Justice Maxon Mbendera, saying he aided fraudulent elections which saw Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader Peter Mutharika winning the presidency. PP spokesman Ken Msonda said on Wednesday that former president Joyce Banda “did not lose the election” but that […]
Spokesperson of former president Joyce Banda, Elias Wakuda Kamanga, has said mammoth crowds that attended People’s Party (PP) campaign meetings for the May 20 Tripartite Elections gave it false hopes of winning resoundingly. Kamanga, legislature-elect in Kasungu, was formerly secretary-general of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and ditched it when Banda, the country’s first female president, […]
When President Joyce Banda spoke at Nelson Mandela’s funeral this past December, she reflected on what she believed to be the most important thing that she had learned from Madiba, “leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, […]
Malawi Police have transferred 42 people from Mangochi to Zomba Maximum Prison arrested on Friday last week for violence in protest against the May 20 Tripartite Elections impasse in the district. Mangochi Police spokesperson Roderick Maida confirmed that the suspects are being remanded at Zomba Maximum Prison waiting to be charged with inciting violence offences […]
The contentious Tripartite Elections are now over with the release of official results and declaration of the winner by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). Professor Peter Mutharika was “declared” the winner and has since been sworn in as the President of the Republic of Malawi. This is the reality we must all come to term […]