The Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) is seeking legal advice from the office of the Attorney General (AG) on the ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal that there should be a re-run in Lilongwe City South East Constituency.<\/p>\n
The court made the ruling on March 6 following a complaint by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) candidate, Ulemu Msungama, that there were serious anomalies in the election.<\/p>\n
Msungama had initially asked for a recount of the votes but the warehouse where the ballots were being kept was gutted by fire, making the proposed recount impossible. He then appealed for a re-run which was granted by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Parliament\u2019s Chief Public Relations Officer, Leonard Mengezi, also recently told The Daily Times <\/em>that they will seek legal advice on the re-run.<\/p>\n In a recent press statement, Mec also indicated that it was putting in place measures to hold the election re-run but needs to critically study the court judgment and electoral laws before taking action.<\/p>\n But Attorney General, Kalekeni Kaphale, yesterday said he has only received a verbal communication on the matter from the country\u2019s electoral body.<\/p>\n \u201cI have only received one verbal request for a legal opinion from the electoral commission. I have asked them to put the question in writing and once again I should be able to offer legal advice in 14 days,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Kaphale said there has been no request of the same nature from Parliament secretariat on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) is seeking legal advice from the office of the Attorney General (AG) on the ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal that there should be a re-run in Lilongwe City South East Constituency. The court made the ruling on March 6 following a complaint by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) candidate, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42551,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42547\/revisions\/42551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}