Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is engaging some donor agencies to overtake the Law Commission and smuggle into Parliament a secretly prepared bill proposing electoral reforms in the country. Nyasa Times can reveal. The bill is set for presentation in Parliament on Thursday by an MCP Member of Parliament for Lilongwe South MP Peter Dimba as […]
The special Law Commission has launched regional consultative meeting aimed at soliciting views on the electoral law reforms. After the 2014 tripartite elections, there has been an outcry on the need to change some laws as regards to the conduct, administration and management of elections. The development forced government through the Law Commission to establish […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament for Lilongwe South, Peter Dimba on Thursday successfully tabled his motion seeking Parliament permission to bring a private member’s Bill to support the electoral reforms. The Bill seeks to shiftingto 50-plus-one system of electing a State President from the current first-past-the-post and the amendment of electoral laws. […]
Malawi opposition will introduce a Bill to discuss all electoral reforms during private members motion day on Thursday after government is reluctant to bring to parliament all relevant electoral reforms Bills. Malawi Congress Party (MCP), the official opposition in Parliament, which threatened to call for ‘peaceful’ civil disobedience if government would not table electoral reforms […]
Malawi Police has been urged to arrest Moses Kuchingale, a personal assistant to the Vice President, who is accused of impersonating a Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) official in the just-ended Mchinji West by-election. Kuchingale is alleged to have visited a number of polling centres, namely; Mzura Full Primary School, Mchinji Community Day Secondary School, Mchinji […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it will investigate incidents in Mchinji West Constituency where opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) parliamentary candidate Jephther Mwale defeated ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Stephano Kamwani in by-election marred with intimidation and rigging tacticis by DPP. MCP reported DPP to the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) and office of Mchinji […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party has threatend to the country “ungovernable” if the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government fails to bring an Electoral Reforms Bill in Parliament next month. African Union (AU) Election Observation Mission Report for 2014 elections specifically recommended, among other things, the review of the current electoral system to ensure that the […]
Political parties and candidates’ must not declare war on Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to solve their poor vote results incase they are defeated, says Catholic Commission for Peace and Justice (CCJP) programe manager for Kasungu, Hastings Kalima. Kalima whose institution helps in the consolidation of democracy in kasungu saw first –hand how political parties and […]
The Newly appointed Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Chairperson Justice Jane Ansah was officially sworn in on Friday a week after her appointment at a ceremony held at the Suppreme Court of Appeal premises in the comercial city of Blantyre. President Mutharika while in USA where he went to attend a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and extended his stay, […]
Sideling people living with disabilities in the recruitment of staff to administer the process of electioneering in Malawi exposed gaps during the Bunda ward by-election in Kasungu over the weekend – Sunday. Malawi Electoral Commission is holding by elections in Kasungu to fill the vacancy created by a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) councilor late Bernard […]
Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) George Mkondiwa has confirmed the appointment of Justice of Appeal Jane Mayenu Ansah, SC as the new Chairperson for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). According to Mkondiwa through a statement released Friday, the appointment is with effect from today Friday 14th October, 2016. Her appointment follows nominations […]
A civil society group on elections, the National Elections Systems Trust (NEST) has warned the Malawi Electorol Commission against holding byelections on November 1, saying it would be illegal. NEST executive director Unandi Banda said the Republican Constitution, Section 75, clearly stipulates that it is only the chairman who is mandated to announce poll results. […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has vacated a court injunction obtained by a former ward councillor in Bembeke stopping a local government by election from going ahead following the conviction of the former councillor. This means the by-election would go ahead on November 1. Deputy public relations officer for MEC Richard Mveriwa confirmed the […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) on Monday launched activities in readiness for by-elections at Kamwendo in Mchinji West constituency slated for November 1, 2016. The by-elections in the constituency follow the death of former parliamentarian for the area, Billy Kanjira Banda (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) who died on March 13 this year. In her speech during […]
The High Court in Blantyre has dismissed a case by prominent lawyer Ambokire Salim who wanted the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to compel presidential candidates and their political parties live up to their campaign promises. Salimu filed for leave for judicial review as a concerned citizen to influence electoral law reform that would make elected […]
Pollster, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) officials say they will go ahead with the Mchinji West byelections and four other local government by-elections on November 1 in the absence of chairman, chief executive officer and six other key members of staff. Chairman of the commission Justice Maxon Mbendera died suddenly a month ago after he […]
The Malawi Law Commission is proposing change in the polling day from May to dry season. Deputy chief commissioner Mtamandeni Liabunya said the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) finds it difficult to administer polls during the rainy season in May because vehicles delay in submitting and collecting electoral materials from remote areas due to impassable roads […]
Government has finally released funding for Malawi Electora Commission (MEC) to conduct parliamentary by-elections in Mchinji West Constituency and local government in four wards. MEC has said after receiving the funding, all is set for the by-elections. Jean Mathanga, MEC chairperson for Electoral Services Committee, said the pollsters were “happy” that government has funded them […]