Two Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners are holding two public offices in essence getting two public salaries a month from the same government account number one and an expert says the situation is confusing but should be rectified. Commissioner for Elections Jean Mathanga is also chairman of power utility provider Escom whilst another commissioner Moffat […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) officials have been telling political parties to scale up their campaigns in areas of parliamentary and local government elections as the polls will be held any day. Commissioner for Administration and Finance Linda Kunje said this in view of the postponement of the by elections in Mchinji West constituency and other […]
Senior managers of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), including chief elections officer Willie Kalonga, have been forced to go on leave to pave the way for investigations into allegations of financial abuse at the electoral body. Commissioner Linda Kunje,who is MEC chairperson of the Finance and Administration Committee, disclosed this in a statement made avaibale […]
Malawi Congres Party (MCP) top brass has beenc riss crossing Mchinji West constituency campaigning to return the seat and after gaining momentum with everything swinging the MCP way, government has withdrawn funding for the by-elections. Mchinji West fell vacant after MCP member of parliament Kanjira Banda died suddenly of heart attack, a day after attacking […]
A proper autopsy will be conducted to ascertain the cause of death of the chairperson for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) who was also judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, Justice Maxon Mbendera, a family member has said. Mbendera is said to have died of cardiac arrests. According to MEC acting chief elections officer […]
Malawi goes to national polls in three years time but debatefor change from the current first-past-the-post and adopts a 50 per cent plus one law to ensure that the winner of presidential elections enjoyed majority support is continuing to heighten as it gets closer with Zambia polls providing good lesson. Malawi’s interfaith organization, Public Affairs Committee (PAC) […]
Malawi Electoral Commission Chairperson Justice Maxon Mbendera collapsed during a meeting in Lilongwe on Thursday and was pronounced dead hours later. Mbendera, was given cardiopulmonary resuscitation by first aiders and taken to the City Centre clinic, but he died while doctors attempted to save his life. “His heart had almost stopped by the time he reached hospital,” […]
Auditor General Stepheson Kamphasa has confirmed that he has been appointed in a three-member team to probe into allegations of financial abuse at the electoral body involving senior managers including chief elections officer Willie Kalonga. Kamphasa has been appointed alongside retired Supreme Court Judge Duncan Tambala and Rex Harawa, managing partner for AMG Global- certified […]
As Americans mull over Clinton or Trump option on November 8 this year, focus is now shifting to whether this election will attract a higher turnout than ever in the past considering the two idiosyncrasies they are faced with. The US has a history of low voter turnout compared to other developed democracies. A global report on voter […]
Senior managers of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), including chief elections officer Willie Kalonga, remain in officie despite being sent on one –month forced leave to pave the way for investigations into allegations of financial abuse at the electoral body. A resolution was passed in May by the Malawi Electoral Cycle Support (Mecs) Project Steering […]
With the US elections slated for November 8 this year, a recent survey has shown that 59 percent of the US electorate are already tired and worn out “by the much coverage of the campaign and elections”. A new Pew Research Center survey conducted June 7-July 5 found out that about six-in-ten Americans (59%) feel […]
The nation has of recent been experiencing indecent, criminal and barbaric acts, even murder, of people with albinism. A number of cases have been reported of people found in possession of flesh human body parts. Others have been caught in grave yards exhuming bodies of people who had albinism with intent to sell their bones […]
Officials from Malawi Electoral Commission say they have sent a budget for byelections to treasury set for October, 2016. Chief Elections Officer Willie Kalonga could not say how much the commission is looking for the byelections in Mchinji West for a parliamentary byelection and local government byelections in Lilongwe and Zomba. “We are still discussing […]
The National Registration Bureau (NRB) in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security has embarked on an exercise to issue national identity cards to citizens of the country aged 16 and above. In the first phase, NRB will issue 5,000 IDs which will also help the bureau to do a test of its concept […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has come out in the open to clarify that it will still issue voter certificates for voters in 2019 despite the country embarking on a national identity card issuance campaign. The media had reported on Tuesday, 14 July, 2016 that the national Identity cards to be issued by the National […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) spokesman Sangwani Mwafulirwa on Thirsday swiftly refuted a newspaper article in the flagship Daily Times which reported that Malawians will in 2019 elections use National IDs to vote instead of voter registration cards. The paper quoted Elvis Salagi, Chief Registration Officer for Population at the National Registration Bureau (NRB). “The ID […]
We continue learning from UK and Malawi in light of the Brexit referendum held on June 23, 2016. About 32 million people voted in the Brexit representing a turnout of 72 percent, which is the highest since 1992. Unlike in Malawi, in the UK votes are counted at a counting area, which mostly is a […]
Members of parliament are most likely to increase following the government decision to allocate K500 million to Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for demarcations of constituencies and wards across the country. Finance minister Goodall Gondwe told the eager parliamentarians that he was hopeful that the exercise of demarcation or re demarcation of constituencies will be completed […]