Malawi’s New President Calls For Unity After Disputed Vote Re-Run
Malawis main opposition Malawi Congress Party, MCP, Leader Lazarus Chakwera who is leading the Tonse Alliance in the fresh Presidential elections due on June 23, next week, addresses supporters at Mtandire locations in the suburb of the capital Lilongwe where he held his final rally, June 20, 2020. AMOS GUMULIRA / AFP.
It is also the first time in the region that a vote re-run has led to the defeat of an incumbent leader, and the election was hailed by a number of African politicians. Chakwera was pronounced the winner with 2.6 million votes, while Mutharika took 1.75 million and underdog Peter Dominico Kuwani over 32,400.In power since 2014, Mutharika won 38 percent of the discredited vote last year, ahead of Chakwera’s 35 percent.
IT expert Daud Suleman, a key witness in the election court case, told AFP: “We have made history and demonstrated how much we can achieve as a people.Around half of landlocked Malawi’s 18 million people live below the poverty line. Many rely on subsistence farming.
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