Unbelievable: Court Nullifies Malawian Presidential Election, Orders Fresh Polls
By Keefa Nuwahereza
A very unusual phenomenon in Africa has occurred after the Constitutional Court in Malawi on Monday nullified the results of last year’s presidential election, citing “widespread, systematic and grave” irregularities, including significant use of correction fluid to alter results from polling stations.
Court also ruled that fresh elections should be organised and as such, a new vote will be held within 150 days.
Court said in its unanimous ruling that at the end it hoped the ruling would not “destroy the nation.’
The two leading opposition candidates had challenged the narrow election win of President Peter Mutharika, alleging that irregularities affected over 1.4 million of the total 5.1 million votes cast.
Months of sometimes deadly unrest follow...
