Ethnic
consciousness dominates Malawi polls
Restive opposition supporters and multiple legal suits await
Malawian politics in the aftermath of an election that has again unveiled deep
ethnic-inclined vote patterns.
Blantrye, Monday 21 June, 1999
Boost for Malawi women
The fight for increased gender sensitivity in Malawi’s
decision-making processes has received a major boost in the June 15 poll with 16 of the
193 parliamentary seats won by women.
Blantrye, Monday 21 June, 1999
Tension as Muluzi leads.
Armed police have been deployed in Malawi’s commercial capital
following incidents of unrest amongst opposition supporters as unofficial results showed
the incumbent, President Bakili Muluzi leading in the presidential race.
Blantrye, Friday 18 June, 1999
Legal hurdles dog Malawi polls.
Malawi’s Electoral Commission has until midnight Friday to
announce final results or stand in breach of the country’s constitution.
Blantrye, Friday 18 June, 1999
Malawi election update
Vote counting for Malawi’s June 15 poll continues at a snail
pace with Bakili Buluzi of the United Democratic Front (UDF) leading in preliminary
results received from the eight of the country’s total 26 districts.
Blantrye, Thursday 17 June, 1999
Monumental task awaits Malawi's
new government
As Malawians wait anxiously for the final results of the June 15
election expected Friday this week, a monumental task of putting the economy back on track
awaits the in-coming government.
Blantrye, Thursday 17 June, 1999
SADC forum promotes electoral
transparency
In a diplomatic drive to promote transparency in regional elections,
the SADC Electoral Commission’s Forum (ECF) is exploring the possibility of sharing
technology to ensure a more efficient, open delivery of results in the 14 member states of
the Southern African Development Community.
Blantrye, Wednesday 16 June, 1999
Malawians turn out in numbers
They came in their thousands. Men, women with babies strapped
to their backs, the young and the infirm, most of them well before the first cock crowed.
By the time the polling stations opened at 0600hrs, crowds milled around patiently in most
of Malawi, through the first half of the day to dutifully cast their vote.
Blantrye, Tuesday 15 June, 1999
High stakes as Malawi braces for
polls
Malawi braces for its second multiparty elections Tuesday in what
observers here expect to be a closely contested race for the Presidency and Parliament.
Blantrye, Monday 14 June, 1999
Malawi election date changed but legal
hurdles remain
Athough last Friday's emergency session of the Malawian parliament
unanimously agreed to shift the polling date from 25 May to not later than 15 June, there
is still concern in some quarters that a Supreme Court ruling on a presidential alliance
between two leading opposition parties might upset the elections time-table.
Blantrye, Sunday 23 May, 1999
Investors play a wait-and-see game
ahead of election
Investors in Malawi remain cautious ahead of the country's second
democratic elections the date for which is yet to be announced after parliament agreed at
an emergency meeting last Friday to postpone it from 25 May to a date no later than 15
June 1999.
Blantrye, Sunday 23 May, 1999
Malawi polls:
Legal battles overshadow economic issues
As the political campaign for the soon-to-be-rescheduled Malawi
general elections heats up, the real problems facing the country are increasingly being
overshadowed by the legal battles involving political parties and the Electoral Commission
of Malawi.
Blantrye, Friday 21 May, 1999
Malawi Parliament
The Electoral Commission of Malawi is worried that the reconvened
parliament meeting Friday might not garner the two thirds majority needed to amend the
constitution for the postponement of the May 25 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Malawi's Election Dilemna
There is divided opinion among key stakeholders over a new date for
Malawi's delayed elections with legal experts warning that the country may sink into
deeper constitutional crises if no political space is allowed to remedy flaws in the
registration process.
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