As the High Court sitting as a Constitutional Court is set to start hearing a petition seeking to nullify presidential election results on July 29, Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has failed to comply with the order on disclosure of information, including documents they used to declarer the presidential winner in the in the May 21 […]
The High Court sitting as a Constitutional Court has rejected an application by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to extend the inspection exercise of presidential ballot in the case where two petitioners are seeking nullification of the presidential results in the May 21 Tripartite Elections. In the case, the country’s immediate past vice-president Saulos Chilima, who […]
Malawi is slowly, but steadily, descending into a dark dungeon of wreckage. Just look around. The streets are burning, business is shut, looting is vast and widespread, lawlessness is winning and the police are visibly and ashamedly underwhelmed. Surely, political wreckage is at hand. You see, where we are, now, is a place we could have […]
A private practice lawyer Chikosa Silungwe, who is lead counsel for Saulos Chilima of UTM Party, the first petitioner in the case seeking nullification of the presidential election results over alleged irregularities, has said they have started inspecting presidential ballot papers in the May 21 Tripartite Elections following a June 27 Constitutional Court ruling that […]
A development economist has said the clarification from Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), the Accountant General and FDH Bank, on the electoral body having a bank account named after the title of its controlling officer, the chief elections officer (CEO), is left wanting. Chris Chaima Banda, a vevelopment economist and long serving British civil service technocrat, told […]
A governance analyst and University of Malawi (Unima) political commentator have said the embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Justice Jane Ansah position at the helm of MEC is untenable following public discontent. The civil society organisations (CSOs), electoral stakeholders and the electorate are demanding Ansah’s resignation on allegations that she failed to handle the […]
The K4 billion cheque from Treasury to a Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) current account named Chief Elections Officer – is yet another propaganda that collapses in the face of truth. The desperation in Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM camp to find evidence to support their petition in the elections case is reaching a breaking […]
There has been revelations that Treasury deposited K4 billion into a bank account named the Chief Elections Officer (CEO) at Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) on the eve of the May 21 Tripartite Elections, fuelling suspicion that the money could have been part of ‘buying’ staff to help in ‘mismanagement’ of the polls. But the chief […]
Under fire Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has announced that it will hold a public auctioning of old electoral materials. According to a statement released by the Commission signed by its Chief Elections Officer Sam Alufandika, the boarding off of obsolete and old materials including accident-damaged vehicles will be held on 10th July, 2019. The items […]
Embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah has received a public backlash after her exclusive interview with multi-award winning private broadcaster Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) aired Monday night when she addressed accusations that she had received billions of kwacha in bribery to fix the elections. Ansah, a judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah has said she will not resign as demanded by electoral stakeholders and rebutted allegations made by country’s immediate past vice-president Saulos Chilima that she favoured President Peter Mutharika in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections to the disadvantage of his challengers. Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) beleaguered chairperson Jane Ansah was grilled when she was interviewed on the private owned Zodiak Broadcasting Station over correction fluid Tippex which was widely used on tally sheets in May 21 2019 presidential elections, prompting the main opposition to file a lawsuit. The programme, which aired Monday evening, laid bare credibility […]
President Peter Mutharika and the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) have filed an appeal to Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal against constitutional court ruling on Friday in favour of opposition parties pursuing a case over disputed election results. The appeal has been lodged by Churchill and Norris Law Consultants, asking the Supreme Court of Appeal to […]
The High Court has ordered Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) not to tamper with the outcome of May 21 Tripartite Election documents as the matter of the disputed presidential polls results is in Constitutional Court. Lawyers of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) last Friday told the Constitutional Court that MEC officials are still altering results of the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has asked the Constitutional Court that Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) should make available an audit report by a firm that was hired to certify the disputed May 21 2019 Presidential Election. One of MCP’s lawyers, Senior Counsel Titus Mvalo, has confirmed that the party had applied to the court to demand […]
Over 40 election petitions, mostly from losers of the parliamentary poll in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, have been filed in various courts across the country. Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) and winning parliamentary candidates are battling to prove that there were no irregularities during and after voting. Professor of law at Chancellor College Ngeyi Kanyongolo […]
UTM Party president Saulos Chilima has made stinging and blistering attacks Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson, Jane Ansah, alleging she told staff at the pollster that they should help President Peter Mutharika win the election. In a leaked letter seen by Nyasa Times calling for Ansah resignation as MEC chair, Chilima said she specifically mentioned […]
A legal battle against the outcome of the presidential race in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections has seen President Peter Mutharika being dragged into the case after the Constitutional Court has included him as the first respondent. Registrar of the High Court of Malawi and Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, Agness Patemba, confirmed Mutharika […]