Terms of the Tonse Alliance have not been made public. MCP and UTM delegated powers to their respective heads to negotiate those terms...
No new voters: Malawi’s fate is up to registered voters of 2019 The Supreme Court’s decision that the fresh elections be conducted using the same voters roll as used [...]
A domestic matter: Elections without International Observers The timelines imposed by the courts place the fresh elections right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course this was [...]
Whilst COVID-19 is being treated like a secondary issue, the fact that entities such as the UNDP withdrew election funding shows that the country’s election-focused priorities and preoccupations are inconsistent with fighting a deadly pandemic.
While the judges have pronounced on the legalities it seems they overlooked the fact that a free and fair election is not really possible with the COVID-19 pandemic. To be fair, the political parties do not seem too concerned about it either.
On 23 April a Facebook post by Ulemu Msungama, MCP MP, for Lilongwe City South East, claimed that a coronavirus death in the area was due to asthma ....
President Mutharika has let the rule of law lead and did not oppose an injunction granted by the judiciary to suspend a planned lockdown ...
Addressing Incompetence: What guarantees MEC competence? Following the Supreme Court ruling, the record reflects for all posterity that the May 2019 elections were run incompetently. This presumes that the [...]
President Mutharika gave an address on 02 April (Thursday) announcing the first three confirmed cases of coronavirus in Malawi.
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