Malawians wait for results following Tuesday's presidnetial elections – a closely-fought race between the incumbent President Peter Mutharika and his two rivals
A woman casts her vote at CCAP Primary School polling station during the Malawi Tripartite general elections in Mzuzu, on May 21, 2019.
Mutharika, who has been in power since 2014, faces opposition from his own deputy Saulos Chilima and former Baptist preacher Lazarus Chakwera. His campaign for a second five-year term has highlighted his record of improving roads and power infrastructure. "We need jobs to change our lives and that is what I hope my candidate does," Madalitso Willie, 25, a motor mechanic in Lilongwe, told AFP, declining to reveal his preference."We have been disappointed so many times before but now we want something different," said Violet Moyo, a 30-year-old businesswoman.
He must defeat a strong challenge from Chakwera, leader of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party , who came a narrow second in the 2014 election. He came to power in the aid-dependent country vowing to tackle corruption after the "Cashgate" scandal erupted a year earlier, revealing massive looting from state coffers.Last November, Mutharika himself was forced to return a $200,000 donation from a businessman facing a corruption case in a $3-million contract to supply food to the Malawi police.
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