Controversy has ensued between the Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) and opposition Peoples Party (PP) over the latter’s decision to pull out of the forthcoming By-elections with the Commission insisting the party is still contesting in the polls. Mec says PP has not followed proper procedures in communicating of its decision to pull out of the […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) has warned political parties against inducing or influencing a candidate to withdraw from the by-elections slated for October 7.The Commission says those found guilty risk a fine of up to K500,000 and two years imprisonment. Chief Elections Officer Willie Kalonga stressed that a duly nominated candidate can only be withdrawn once […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is disputing media reports alleging that the electoral body will no longer hire teachers as Supervisors and Presiding Officers during elections. The Commission says in a statement that it has not made a blanket decision to stop engaging teachers as Presiding Officers or Supervisors because they proved to be a […]
Former ruling People’s Party (PP) says it is reconsidering its desire to participate in the forthcoming by-elections in two constituencies and five wards after questioning the credibility of Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) to conduct free and fair elections. Mec has been under fire following numerous irregularities that marred the controversial May elections won by Democratic […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission, which is struggling to pay polling staff for May 20 elections, has announced it will no longer engage teachers as presiding officers and supervisors in future Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government Elections.The Commission, currently conducting post-elections review meetings across the country, says teachers, highly used in theMay 20 tripartite elections, have proved ineffective. This […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec), which is currently conducting post-election review meeting across the country, has suspended electronic bank transfer of honorarium to polling staff for May 20 tripartite elections. The Commission, according to Chief Elections officer Willie Kalonga, will now “adopt a revised approach” for the remaining payments. Kalonga most polling staff gave the Commission wrong […]
Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Justice Maxon Mbendera had a rude awakening when election stakeholders who included constituents, faith leaders and political party representatives, booed him in Blantyre North as he presided over the official launch of the Blantyre North parliamentary by-elections. MEC will conduct parliamentary by-elections on October 7, 2014 in Thyolo […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) officials say they will conduct interviews for presiding officers in various wards and constituencies they are conducting by-elections on October 7 to void the repeat of vote counting errors that dogged the May 20 polls which forced the Commission to opt for the failed vote recount. Speaking on Monday during the launching ceremony […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission is requesting all political parties, aspiring candidates and civil society organizations wishing to monitor the for the October 7bye-elections to submit names of their monitors by August 28, 2014 to the Constituency Returning Officer or the District Commissioner’s office or accreditation. The Commissions says all monitors without accreditation shall not be granted access […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission says it will launch the electoral calendar for the by-elections in the country’s two constituencies and five wards on Monday August 25. The constituencies are Thyolo East which fell vacant after its parliamentary candidate Peter Mutharika won the seat of the president, and Blantyre North where its candidate died prior to the […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) officials say they have arranged a meeting this week with the Minister of Finance Goodall Gondwe to discuss issues of delayed payment of drivers from government departments and other people who not yet honoured after working during and after the May polls. The arrangement comes after a group of angry drivers […]
Malawi’s interfaith organization, Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has recomended that amending the electoral law on electing a Head of State from the current first-past-the-post and adopt a 50 per cent plus one law to ensure that the winner of presidential elections enjoyed majority support. PAC spokesperson Father Peter Mulomole disclosed this through a media statement […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) temporary staff for the May 20 Tripartite Elections should brace for hard times with the payment for June salaries to delay further. MEC said in a statement that the delay was caused by the Treasury which is yet to release funding for salaries of the temporary staff. “The Commission processed in early June, […]
Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Maxon Mbendera says he and other commissioners are ready to resign should people insist and that the electoral body has nothing to apologise for anything it did during and after the electoral process that ushered President Peter Mutharika to power. The MEC commissioners have long been under intense […]
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau What was Willie Kalonga high on when he rushed to make that thoughtless, if not senseless, statement that the Tuesday mysterious fire that gutted the Mec warehouse in Lilongwe was being treated as ‘a normal fire accident’ by the good people at […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) has revealed that it will no longer handle funds to pay delayed honorarium for polling staff, majority of which were teachers. The electoral body has, in the past few days, been under fire for failing to pay the polling staff, forcing some to stage demonstrations at its offices. But a meeting […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has questioned the involvement of the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) in providing security to its warehouse which was set on fire on by suspected arsonists, saying there was no arrangement between the Commission and the state spy agency. MEC has also said that it is not ruling out arson […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has adjourned to Tuesday the case in which Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Lilongwe City South East candidate Ulemu Msungama wants to vacate a stay order in which Member of Parliament (MP) for the area Bently Namasasu obtained against a recount of the votes. Justice Lloyd Muhara, who initially granted the injunction, adjourned the […]