Malawi Election Results On Bbc

Presidential elections were held in malawi on 23 june 2020 having originally been scheduled for 19 may and later 2 july.

Malawi election results on bbc. 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. 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 s main opposition party malawi congress party mcp leader lazarus chakwera pictured is leading in partial presidential election results leaked to the media after the country held elections yesterday.

Official results for tuesday s poll have not yet been declared by malawi s electoral commission. By chakuchanya harawa bbc africa. Opposition supporters in malawi have been celebrating after a panel of five top judges annulled the results of last may s presidential election.

Many of them said this was a victory for democracy. Malawi became the second african nation to annul a presidential election over irregularities after kenya in 2017. The country was bitterly divided in the run up to this week s election.

But state broadcaster mbc says opposition leader lazarus chakwera is leading with 59 of the vote. In february malawi s constitutional court annulled mr mutharika s victory in the may 2019 election citing vote tampering. The result of the re run elections was a victory for lazarus chakwera of the malawi congress party who.

Updates on this and other stories how brave judges rejected a. 75 of all votes have been counted early official results showed president peter mutharika and chakwera were equal on about 37 of the vote. Told the bbc s focus on africa radio.

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