UTM party parliamentary candidate for Mulanje West, Patricia ‘Akweni’ Kaliati, has said the ongoing wrangles in her constituency and others in the district are due to police and Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) failure to act on the perpetrators of electoral offences. Speaking at Namphungo Primary School during a Multiparty Liason Committee (MPLC) meeting recently, she […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it will on May 2 conduct dry test for election results management system. MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa said during the exercise, MEC will place staff and equipment in all the constituency tally centres and also set up a testing main tally centre in Blantyre. “The polling equipment staff […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has disqualified a United Democratic Front (UDF) parliamentary candidate for Blantyre north east for presenting a fake Malawi School Certificate of Education. MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa has confirmed that Bakali Osman presented the fake certificate to dodge a proficiency test of reading and speaking English. “We received a complaint […]
The European Union election monitoring team officials have ruled out rigging in the May 21 tripartite polls, but called for Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to retain the confidence of the electoral stakeholders beyond the polls. The EU election monitoring head Miroslav Poche described the tantrums by President Peter Mutharika indirectly accusing the vice-president Saulos Chilima […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it has a budget deficit of K3.3 billion for the May 21 tripartite elections. Officials from MEC said this on Wednesday at a Public Affairs Committee organized two-day meeting on the elections which has drawn delegates from the pollster, UNDP and other stakeholders. But UNDP chief technical advisor […]
Commissioners at pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) have challenged President Peter Mutharika to bring evidence on his allegations that one politician has hired foreign experts to rig the highly contentious May 21 2019 tripartite election. At a political rally in Ntchisi on Monday, Mutharika alleged the politician, whom he did not name, has hired […]
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 […]
Tax-funded Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) will now start airing a 30 minute programme featuring all the seven presidential contestants in the watershed May 21 2019 tripartite elections. The programmes will be aired both on MBC Radio Radio and Television from Monday to Sundays. This is in accordance with Section 63(2) of the Parliamentary and Presidential […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said following it decision to strike the country’s former vice-president Cassim Chilumpha from the presidential list now leaves seven aspirants from the initially approved nine paper in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. The candidates to appear on presidential ballot includes incumbent President Peter Mutharika of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said that the sensitization meetings with Traditional Authorities and their subjects on the voting process which are happening in different districts across the country will help in providing free, fair and credible elections on May 21. Commissioner Ambassador Yahaya Mmadi made the remarks on Monday during one of the […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said they have struck off the name of former vice-president Cassim Chilumpha being on the presidential ballot paper in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections after the High Court ruled against his candidature for Tikonze People’s Movement (TPM). MEC Chief Elections Officer said in a statement made available to Nyasa […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and its electoral alliance partners People’s Party (PP) and Freedpm Party are challenging the credentials of Al Ghurair Print and Publishing Company Limited of Dubai which has been given the contract by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to print the ballot paers for May 21 Tripartite Election. MEC director of media and […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has confirmed in the statement that they have identified a security printer in United Arab Emirates to be used in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Nyasa Times reported recently that that one governing party official was engaging a Dubai-based firm to print the presidential ballot papers. MEC director of media and public […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has been challenged to ensure there is level playing field in the May 21 Tripartite Election by among others press taxpayer-funded Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) to open up the airwaves to all parties during the 60-day official election campaign period. The opposition are accusing MBC – on both television and its […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has a task to ensure its credibility is not damaged by taking action to Senior Chief Mwalweni of Rumphi who defied electoral laws at the weekend when he endorses ruling Democrtaic Progressive Party (DPP) for the May 21 elections. Mwalweni said during a political rally held by Minister of Transport and […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has announced that following the death of Blantyre West Parliamentary candidate, George Kajumo all proceedings in relation to May 21 elections for that constituency have been stopped in pursuant to section 47 of the Parliamentary and Presidential Elections Act. In that vein MEC says all nominations that were done in Blantyre […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said there is a fake presidential ballot paper circulating on social media and has asked all electoral stakeholders to ignore it. According to a statement made available to Nyasa Times by the commission’s Director of Media and Public Relations, Sangwani Mwafulirwa, the ballot paper in question is not from MEC. “The […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah set the tone for the 60-day official campaign in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections which runs up to May 19 by challenging traditional leaders and other stakeholders to give candidates and political parties an “equal opportunity to freely hold political campaigns.” The MEC chairperson made the appeal at Bingu […]