The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it is now suspecting that some people deliberately set on fire its warehouse in the capital Lilongwe in which all electoral materials that were in the Warehouse including 2,400 ballot boxes which contained ballot papers, 81 gas cylinders, 168 gas lamps, were destroyed. This was said at its emergency […]
Malawi’s human rights groups have said the fire incident that destroyed disputed votes for Lilongwe City South East Constituency at the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse in Lilongwe on Monday night smell of foul play and conspiracy in a bid to destroy evidence in the ongoing electoral dispute currently in court. The warehouse was gutted by fire […]
Malawi’s governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has rejected accusations that it is behind the fire that gutted the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse in Lilongwe on Tuesday. Opposition parties claim that the fire was deliberately started to destroy evidence that could have overturned the parliamentary victory of a member of DPP. Last week, a high […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has called on Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners to step down for ‘failing to manage’ the May 20 Tripartite Elections. The call was made by the party’s Publicity Secretary Dr. Jessie Kabwila and echoed by Director of elections Joseph Njobvuyalema during a news conference on Wednesday at MCP headquarters in Lilongwe. […]
The blame game has started. Malawi Electoral Commission is distancing itself from the delayed payment to polling workers who are yet to receive their honoraria for work done during the May 2014 Tripartite Elections saying the responsibility of paying the workers relies on Development Partners. The Commissions’ Chief Elections Officer Willie Kalonga says in a […]
Malawi government has said it will institute an “independent and through investigation” into the string of suspected arsons into public and private institutions recently. Ministry of Information, Tourism and Civic Education on Tuesday said government is deeply concerned at the “sudden incidents” of fire which some quarters believe is the work of arsonists. “Government has […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) says it is “suspicious” with the fire which set ablaze Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse n Lilongwe where ballot boxes were being kept. The ballots are at the centre of disputed race in which the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Bently Namasasu narrowly beat Ulemu Msungama of the Malawi Congress Party […]
Teachers from Lilongwe Rural East, Lilongwe Urban and Lilongwe Rural West on Tuesday morning marched and petitioned Lilongwe City Chief Executive Officer (CEO), District Commissioner (DC) demanding honoraria payment by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). Led by the Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) Secretary General Dennis Kalekeni, the teachers have warned of unspecified action if they are […]
Several of the gas cylinders and lamps which Malawi borrowed from Zimbabwe and a total of 1,500 ballot boxes are among the materials feared to have been destroyed by the fire that gutted the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouses in Lilongwe after a suspected arson. The warehouse has been set ablze amidst a High Court […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokesperson Dr Jessie Kabwira suspects foul play in the cause of fire that has set ablaze Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Warehouse in Lilongwe where a vote recount was supposed to take place. Although the Lilongwe City Assembly was called in immediately to put off the fire, there has been extensive […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse in Lilongwe, where disputed votes for for Lilongwe City South East Constituency ballots were expected to be recounted has been destroyed by a large fire set on by unknown arsonists. The fire started soon after unknown vehicle that drove into the vicinity, Area 4 and a suspected petrol bomb was […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is asking all unpaid polling staff who worked during the May 2014 Tripartite Elections to remain calm and patient, saying the commission is doing everything possible to process their payment. The appeal comes few days after a group of teachers who were among the polling staff clashed with police in […]
Former ruling People’s Party (PP) spokesperson Ken Msonda, who is planning to drag the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to court for fraud and abuse of office, has challenged that he has enough resources and means to meet legal costs against the Commission. Msonda, whose party was deposed by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), threatened to […]
Police on Friday used tear gas and shot into the air as they tried to disperse over hundreds of teachers for staging a peaceful demonstration over their delayed allowances payment by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC). The march, in the capital Lilongwe, was called by teachers from Lilongwe Rural East, Lilongwe Urban and Lilongwe Rural […]
Opposition People’s Party (PP) spokesperson Ken Msonda says he will drag to court Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) officials including its Chairman and Commissioners for “fraud and abuse” of office. Msonda, whose party was dethroned by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in May 20 tripartite polls, is also targeting Mec Chief Elections Officer Willie Kalonga, presiding officers and some […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) MP for Lilongwe City South East, Bently Namasau, has obtained a court injunction restraining Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) from conducting a recounting in the constituency’s three polling centres MEC ordered a recount on Tuesday in Chilinde, City Assembly Office and Mloza Primary School polling centres after the High Court ruled in favour of […]
The High Court in Blantyre has ordered the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to do vote recounting in Lilongwe City South East Constituency after one candidate who lost in the previous elections applied to the court for the same. The candidate, Ulemu Msungama was contesting for the parliamentary seat on a Malawi Congress Party (MCP) ticket […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said elections results from Malawi Electoral Support Network (MESN) Parallel Vote Tabulation (PVT) data centre gave relief to the commission amid the electoral chaos experienced in the May 20 tripartite elections. MEC chairperson Justice Maxon Mbendera has since called for the institutionalization of the PVT initiative. He said it was better that […]