Malawi Election Results Bbc

Many of them said this was a victory for democracy.

Malawi election results bbc. Official results for tuesday s poll have not yet been declared by malawi s electoral commission. In malawi election officials have started counting votes in what has been described as one of the country s most unpredictable presidential elections. Updates on this and other stories how brave judges rejected a.

Malawi s foreign minister eisenhower mkaka told the bbc that he believed the reason for the seven hour delay in the president s departure was because south africa suspected that president. Malawi became the second african nation to annul a presidential election over irregularities after kenya in 2017. 75 of all votes have been counted early official results showed president peter mutharika and chakwera were equal on about 37 of the vote.

But state broadcaster mbc says opposition leader lazarus chakwera is leading with 59 of the vote. Albino killings the president s fake death and five more things. The country was bitterly divided in the run up to this week s election.

Presidential elections were held in malawi on 23 june 2020 having originally been scheduled for 19 may and later 2 july. By chakuchanya harawa bbc africa. Ansah a judge of the malawi supreme court of appeal said mutharika has polled so far 1 436 877 votes represent 40 percent followed by malawi congress party mcp candidate lazarus chakwera with.

The result of the re run elections was a victory for lazarus chakwera of the malawi congress party who. They followed the annulment of the results of the 2019 presidential elections in which peter mutharika of the democratic progressive party had received the most votes.