Opinion: Malawi’s Normal Presidential Election Re-Run Vs Uganda’s Scientific General Elections
By Mulindwa Walid Lubega
Yesterday, over 6 million registered Malawians thronged in huge numbers to polling booths across the Country to re-elect the next President of Malawi marking and end to a full year political showdown between Government, Opposition and civil society.
The re- run
of May 2019 Presidential election was ordered by Malawi Constitutional court in
February 2020 after judges found widespread
irregularities with the original ballot.
The election
saw the 80 year old President Prof. Peter Mutharika narrowly re-elected for the
second term by less than 159,000 Votes with a 38.6% share of the votes cast
against his erstwhile political nemesis the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader
Lazarus Chakwera with 35.4% and President Mutharika's Vice President Saulos
Chi...
