Malawians will be going to polls in general elections the third week of September starting from the 2025 polls following the passing of the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill No.5 in Parliament on Tuesday. The country has been holding parliamentary, presidential and local government elections the third week of May every five years. But the Bill which […]
Majority opposition lawmakers spoke in chorus for the Tripartite Elections Bill – which will enable the country to hold three elections, the presidential, parliamentary and local government in 2014, should be send back to government for refinement. Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara tabled the Bill No. 9 of 2013: Parliamentary and Presidential Elections (Amendment) which seeks […]
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda reassured the nation and the international community that the government was putting in place the necessary mechanisms to guarantee free and fair elections next year. Delivering the State of the National Address at the New Parliament Building in Lilongwe on Friday, Banda said the measures being put in place will ensure […]
The controversy over whether Malawi will have tripartite elections next seem to be settling after a Cabinet Committee in the country on Monday approved three bills aimed at harmonising the electoral law to see the process through. The country’s Attorney General Anthony Kamanga said the three amendment bills are now ready for gazetting and will be tabled […]