The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it will serve no purpose to start preparations for bye elections in Thyolo East and Machinga North East constituencies because the electoral body might not meet the legal requirements to do so. Thyolo East formerly of DPP Presidential Candidate Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika fell vacant on Thursday following the […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has urged its District Elections Clerks to be of sober habits and presentable at all times saying booze binging reflects badly not only on them but also on the Commission. Justice Mbendera gave the advise during the opening of an orientation workshop for new District Elections Clerks at Sunbird Lilongwe Hotel on Thursday. […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has registered a total of 7,537,548 voters nationwide for the May 20 tripartite elections by closing of registration on December 18, 2013, it has been announced. MEC statement on the final statistics of registered voters after phase nine of registration released on Monday says the registered voters represent 94.10 percent of the projected […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has suspended the reopening of voters registration centres in Chikhwawa. In a statement signed by chairperson Justice Maxon Mbendera, MEC said the decision to suspend the re-opening has been made due to ‘the situation on the ground.’ The statement, however, does not indicate the situation in question. But the statement […]
Students and staff members at Mzuzu University (Mzuni) will like their colleagues at other constituent colleges of the University of Malawi (Unima) register in the ongoing Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) voter registration exercise, in readiness for the 2014 tripartite elections, on campus. Both MEC and Mzuni Student Union (MUSU) president Nyozomo Gondwe confirmed the development […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has asked District Education Managers to desist from deploying habitual drinkers as registration staff at centres saying the practice is compromising the quality of work and costly. MEC Commissioner Reverend Mezuwa Banda said in many cases the electoral body has noted that it had encountered problems with teachers deployed to registration […]
The total number of registered voters for all the six phases so far now stands at 4,873,431 prospective voters, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has announced. Phase six of voter registration took place in Lilongwe City, Chitipa and Dowa districts, Mchinji South and Southwest constituencies and Dedza West, Central, Central East, Southwest and Northwest constituencies. […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has challenged the newly formed taskforce on presidential debates to make the discussions attractive so that Malawians get excited and participate in the debates. MEC commissioner for Media, Civic and Voter Education Committee Nancy Tembo made the remarks on Monday in Zomba during a third preparatory meeting of the taskforce. “Ladies and […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has announced the formation of a task force for presidential candidates’ debates. This comes barely a few months before Malawians go to the polls to elect their leaders in tripartite elections slated for May 20, 2014. MEC Director of Media and Public Relations, Sangwani Mwafulirwa said the task force has […]
The main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has expressed fears that the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is purposely frustrating the voter registration exercise in the central region, which is its stronghold, saying the development is tantamount to rigging. MCP has since demanded the electoral body to urgently rectify the anomalies. Among others, MCP claims MEC […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioner Nancy Tembo has apologised for a “discriminatory” impression which one of its civic and voter education posters for the 2014 Tripartite Elections gives to the public. The poster in question depicts eligible voters lining up for the registration process with each of them wearing a pair of shoes. Tembo made […]
The sixth phase of voter registration starts on October 15 and runs up to October 28, 2013. This phase will cover Lilongwe City, Chitipa and Dowa districts, Mchinji South and Southwest constituencies and Dedza West, Central, Central East, Southwest and Northwest constituencies. Coincidentally the first day of starting voter registration for this phase is a public holiday, Mothers’ […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says its centres will remain open on Mothers’ Day – 15th October, 2013 – despite it being a public holiday so that people can make use of the holiday by registering. The sixth phase of voter registration exercise – which will cover Lilongwe City, Chitipa and Dowa districts, Mchinji South and […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has supportively addressed stakeholders’ concerns to have the dates for the voter registration exercise shifted in Chitipa District due to its terrain. A number of stakeholders asked MEC to consider shifting the dates from the initial December to this month so that the district is not disadvantaged due to its […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) said on Friday it is impressed the way Nyasa Times discharges its duties and it has called on other media organizations to borrow a leaf if the 2014 tripartite elections are to be credible. MEC’s Deputy Chief elections officer (DCEO) responsible for Operations Harris Potani was speaking in Mzuzu when he […]
As Malawi draws nearer its first ever tripartite elections next year, the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has urged the country’s media to be watchful when reporting opinion polls to avoid misleading the public. MEC Deputy Chief Elections Officer, Harris Potani, said during elections period many pollsters come to light some with questionable credentials and dubious […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission has disclosed that more women than men have registered in the fourth phase of the voter registration exercise ahead of the next year’s tripartite elections. According to a statement issued Tuesday, the exercise – conducted in Zomba District, Zomba City, Machinga District and Phalombe Central & North Constituencies – saw 498 772 […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has been forced to withdraw its earlier statement informing the electoral stakeholders and the general public about the new registration equipment the body has received from development partners. However, its revised statement has raised stakeholders’ eye brows after the commission changed as well as removed several things that were contained […]