Malawi Congress Party (MCP) director of youth Richard Chimwendo Banda has been sharply criticized for his remarks at a rally in Mponela, Dowa on Saturday which some people say were inciting to be protest violently should the election case verdict not go in favour of the party. Chimwendo Banda could be heard in a clip […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka has sharply contradicted his party president Lazarus Chakwera on meeting President Peter Mutharika face to face to end the current political impasse. Chakwera told the media on Wednesday after meeting organisers of peace talks, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) that he was ready to meet Mutharika […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera who is also the second petitioner in the disputed May 21 presidential election results has urged people to respect the Constitutional Court much-awaited judgement. Chakwera, who came second in the presidential race, together with UTM president Dr Sailors Chilima as first petitioner dragged the Malawi Electoral […]
Analysts have blamed the poor performance of some members of parliament to the high expenses candidates spend to win their seats during campaign. Humphrey Mvula, a renowned political analyst said members of parliament are more interested in recovering their money when they win an election as opposed to performing to the people’s expectations. “They take […]
The Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale, who is representing Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) in the historic presidential elections petition case as Chief Legal Adviser for government, has laid out the theory of the electoral body before its three key witnesses testify, pointing out that MEC did not compromise any of the candidates right to be elected […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has taken time off from attending hectic presidential poll results challenge case to visit Jerusalem as he turned to God by embarking on prayer for “victory over wickedness and for good leaders and truth to reign in Malawi”. In a tweet accompanied by pictures of himself in the […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is reportedly plotting to unleash terror and violence in the country if the Constitutional Court’s determination on the May presidential electipn results petition case will not go in favour of a rerun. According to a leaked “strategy document” from party meetings which some sources confirm have been taking place by […]
First, let’s commend ourselves for resisting the strong temptation to comment on the proceedings of the ongoing case in the Constitutional Court where Malawi Congress Party (MCP)’s Lazarus Chakwera and United Transformation Movement (UTM)’s Saulos Chilima are forcefully challenging the results of the May 21 elections in which the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) announced Democratic […]
If there is one thing that Malawi Congress Party (MCP) does as a strength, then it is postmortem and self-assessment surveys but its recent survey that the party carried out as they prepared for the bye-elections in Lilongwe and Kasungu has come shocking and surprising to the oldest political party in the land. They are […]
Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale and private practice lawyer Tamanda Chokhotho, both representing Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) on Tuesday rounded up the Daud Suleman, the sixth witness for the second petitioner, in cross-examination of the landmark the presidential elections nullification petition case. During cross-examination, Suleman made so many concessions in his testimony that could cause […]
UTM Party has moved in swiftly to stop social media platforms spat between its supporters and those of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP). UTM and MCP social media operatives have been engaged in bitter war in various platforms despite the fact that the two parties are jointly challenging the presidential poll results at the Constitutional […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale on Monday tussled with Malawi Congress Party (MCP) IT expert and witness in the on-going elections case, Daud Suleman, on how results in the presential elections in May were allegedly manipulated in the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) system. During the cross examination, Kaphale representing the electoral body by virtue of being […]
Lawyers for UTM Party president Saulos Chilima in the landmark elections case have applied to the Constitutional Court not to allow the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) IT director Muhabi Chisi not to make a presentation in the court. Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale wants Chisi to make the presentation in response to the simulation by Malawi […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) celebrated sixth witness Daudi Suleman, an IT expert. has received a rare standing ovation from people as he stepped down from the Constitutional Court in the landmark election case after his examination-in-chief. Joyous people ululated and escorted the witness to second petitioner Lazarus Chakwera to his vehicle after adjournment following his […]
Malawian legal scholar based at the at South Africa’s Cape Town University, Professor Danwood Chirwa has stated that the testimony by Malawi Congress Patrty (MCP) IT expert and witness in the on-going elections case, Daud Suleman, on Friday was “hughely devastating”. He said Suleman’s simulation in court on how Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) computerised election […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP Information Technology (IT) expert and final witness Daud Suleman n the on-going presidential elections case on Friday took the Constitutional Court sitting in Lilongwe through an ‘imaginary’ constituency tally centre results management to Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) main tally centre system until they are announced to demonstrate how the electoral body’s […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) final witness Information Technology (IT) expert Daud Suleman on Friday told the court with evidential demonstration that May 21 presidential elections results were manipulated by “ghost user” uploaded data results management system and that Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah rushed to announce the results before they were 100 percent […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) information technology expert Daud Suleman has told Constitutional Court in Lilongwe that the Jane Ansah led Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) deleted some election’s data from its computer system and servers. Sulemani who started testifying on Thursday told the court that using the relation type of data base the electoral body used, […]