Month: December 2015 Posts

MEC’s by-elections on today

Dec 22, 2015 Geoffrey Banda 6 &

The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says all is set for the 22 December Parliamentary and Local Government By-elections. The electoral body says all preparations for the polls are completed and the centres are ready for… ...

DPP denies hacking MEC system

Dec 22, 2015 Happy Arnold Soko 105 &

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which rose to power after the elections in May last year, has denied claims that it rigged the elections by hacking a Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) system. An information technology… ...

MEC drilled on constituencies slicing

Nov 30, 2015 Victoria Milanzi 12 &

As there are reports that the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) will delimit constituencies in the country, a political commentator has asked the electoral body to consider economic issues before doing the exercise. Currently, Malawi has… ...

Malawi parliament told to reject MEC’s obnoxious pay rise

Oct 18, 2015 Hajira Halilu 18 &

Activists have all ganged up in calling on the Malawi parliament not to accept a whooping 170 percent pay rise that commissioners at the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) are demanding. This follows a proposal the commissioners submitted, to… ...

MEC rolls out constituency demarcation exercise

Oct 05, 2015 Hajira Halilu 10 &

The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is to start constituency demarcation exercise this month. According to MEC Chief Elections Officer, Willie Karonga the electoral body has in this years strategic plan that it conduct the exercise… ...

MEC to dispose 2014 Tripartite Elections papers

Oct 02, 2015 Happy Arnold Soko 20 &

The Malawi Electoral Commission ( MEC ) says it will be disposing papers which include voter registers, ballot papers, results records from districts and polling stations for the 2014 Tripartite Elections, Malawi24 has learnt. Accordance… ...