UTM parliamentary candidates dispute May 21 election results
UTM Party parliamentary candidate for Ntcheu south Fanuel Kudana had disputed poll results which saw him losing against his rival in the controversial May 21 Tripartite Elections.
Kudana said there were several irregularities which pollster Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) needed to address before declaring his rival as winner.
“I formally complained to MEC over the daring irregularities but MEC did not want to address them,” said Kudana.
He said MEC determination on the matter was not satisfactory and has decided to go to court for redress.
But MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa said the pollster looked at the complaints and concluded that they lacked merit.
Meanwhile, another UTM candidate in Ntcheu central Joseph Malingamoyo said he is going to court to contest against parliamentary poll result which was won by his rival Arthur Chipungu.
On Friday, UTM Party led by Saulos Chilima, the country’s immediate past vice-president who fell out with President Peter Mutharika, asked the High Court in Lilongwe seeking the nullification of the presidential poll results.
The same day, MCP president Lazarus Chakwera, who finished second in the presidential race, announced that the party would seek legal redress for the court to invalidate the presidential election results.
The opposition case has since been consolidated into one after the ruling by judge Charles Mkandawire and will be heard by Constitutional court possibly by a panel of three judges.
They accuses ruling DPP members, supporters, sympathisers, officials and agents of engaging in “several rigging acts” that allegedly distorted the results in favour of DPP “against the votes and will of the people of Malawi”.
On incidents of tampering that saw erasing fluid – Tippex – being used to change figures, the opposition has also attached to its application copies of the results sheets that were purportedly tampered with.
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Kodi ndimayesa bwana wanu Saulosi ankati palibe angabere chisankho.? He was saying ndi ma amateurss. Tsono zoti chisankho chaberedwa zikuchokera pati? Dziko lonse linamva kuti a Saulosi ndi amene anathandiza DPP kuwina chisankho mu 2014. Kodi nanga zinawavuta bwanji kuzithandiza iwo eni kuti UTM iwine chisankho? Anthu anawauza a Chilima kuti akuonjeza kunyoza lero zawavuta manja ali mkhosi kulira ku khoti
Agalu aona polekera chaka chake ndichino. Tikudziwa munaba ndalama zaboma munya muona
va MEC niviwanthu wavuphuphu
Following Chakwera’s foot steps – aka biblical Jonah, everyone in who lost, MPs, councilors, all DPP candidates in the central region districts etc must go to the courts to dispute the results.