Opposition seeks to annul 2020 poll

Malawi’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has called on the Malawi Congress Party-led government to nullify the June 2020 presidential election results for failing to issue letters of appointment to two electoral commissioners. A report on the IoL site notes that DPP spokesperson Brown Mpinganjira said the party was disappointed about the way the Malawi Electoral Commission and the government had handled the appointment of commissioners Jean Mathanga and Linda Kunje. He said the two commissioners ‘have continued to work and have been an integral part of the administration of the 23 June 2020 presidential election as well as several by-elections which have been conducted since’. President Lazarus Chakwera said he would not issue them with letters of appointment because they had been found to be ‘incompetent’ by the Supreme Court of Appeal. The two were part of the commission that was deemed incompetent by the court that nullified the 2019 elections.