Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has complied with Constitutional Court’s set dateline for filing and serving of 748 sworn affidavits in opposition to petitioners UTM Party president Saulos Chilima and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera, in a case where the two want presidential election results nullified. The lawyer for MEC Tamando Chokotho confirmed that […]
It is undeniable fact that since the national wide demonstrations started last month against Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Chairperson Jane Ansah to step down, there has been a wave of violence and looting. Buildings have been vandalised, government and the ruling Democratic People’s Party (DPP) offices have been set ablaze, shops have been looted while […]
The recount in a number of constituencies in Chikwawa and Nsanje districts is futile because ballot boxes have been tampered with after they were supposedly sealed on the polling day, May 21 2019, the inspection exercise of the polling materials for parliamentary elections has revealed. Loose ballot box seals were noted by officials conducting the […]
As time slowly ticks towards August 8 for the commencement of the presidential elections case, there is a flurry of very focused and purposeful activity in the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) lawyers camp who have a deadline to beat for the collection and filing of the last vestiges of their trial evidence. The Constitutional Court […]
Embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah is not tendering her resignation despite mounting pressure for her to step aside over alleged fraud since President Peter Mutharika’s May re-election. Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) with backing from opposition parties have said they will engage extra gear for twice-a-week street action to force Ansah, a […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) are failing to trace results and tally sheets for a case in which three Malawi Congress Party shadow members of Parliament (MPs) in Chikwawa and Nsanje districts are challenging results of the May 21 parliamentary elections. Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members Kafandikhale Mandevana of Nsanje Central, Enoch Chizuzu (Nsanje North) […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) legal team have expressed profound satisfaction with the ruling by the High Court sitting as Constitutional Court in Lilongwe granting them additional time for collecting and filing sworn statements from Polling Station Officers for those stations whose results are cited in the Presidential poll case as being irregular. The exercise had […]
The High Court sitting as a Constitutional Court in Lilongwe on Thursday allowed the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) application seeking extension to file sworn affidavits in the presidential election nullification petition case on grounds that petitioners interfered with its exercise. The court refused the 14-day extension but granted an extension of five […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is exposing tippexed parliamentary results in areas won by the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) including the constituency which party president Lazarus Chakwera won. The MCP has been vocal against what they call tippexed results, poll results sheets which were deleted by the correctional fluid, tippex. The party has since asked the […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has applied to the Constitutional Court in Lilongwe to delay the pollster legal team filing and serving of defense documents. The court ordered the MEC defense team to submit its defense documents to the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM lawyers 11 days ago. But the MEC lawyers said they need […]
A team of state rights body, the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) on Saturday visited one of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners Reverend Kilion Mgawi house which was ransacked and vandalised at Nkhoma Trading Centre. MHRC officials said they visited the residence as part of the program to record post-election violence. Mgawi, a retired religious […]
An angry mob on Friday vandalised a residence of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioner the Very Reverend Killion Mgawi at Nkhoma in Lilongwe during the Anti-Jane Ansah protests. The mob vandalised after looting some of the property in the residence. The attack of Mgawi’s residence on Friday came on a day the Human Rights Defenders […]
The current political environment in the country is not suitable for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to hold elections in Lilongwe South East where the elections were canceled due to the death of a candidate. MEC Director of Media and Public Relations, Sangwani Mwafulirwa said in an interview Thursday that the Commission was committed to […]
Malawi Law Society (MLS) has called on embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah to “deeply reflect” on the value of remaining in office as her position has become technically untenable in the face of growing calls for her resignation for allegedly compromising herself and mismanaging the May 21 Tripartite Elections and purportedly favouring […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said its meetings which staff and lawyers have been having in district councils with election presiding officers to collect information for the on-going court case have been stopped. “Due to the unconducive atmosphere characterised by animosity and violent behaviour towards staff and lawyers, the commission has decided to halt the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says it sticks to its statement accusing the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) of suspiciously soliciting signatures for new electoral result sheets and that it will not withdraw it despite electoral commission’s threats of court action. This follows a request by Jane-Ansah-led MEC to MCP that they should withdraw its statement which […]
Malawi Electoral Commission has threatened to drag the Malawi Electoral Congress Party (MCP) to court if it does not withdraw a media statement withdraw accusing the electoral body of suspiciously soliciting signatures for new electoral results sheets. MEC chief elections officer Sam Alfandika said in a statement made available to Nyasa Times on Sunday that […]
The High Court in Blantyre has dismissed an application by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to throw out a case in which three Malawi Congress Party (MCP) parliamentary candidates in Chikwawa and Nsanje districts are challenging results of the May 21 parliamentary elections. Kafandikhale Mandevana of Nsanje Central, Enoch Chizuzu (Nsanje North) and Foster Thipiwa (Chikwawa […]