{"id":55137,"date":"2017-10-17T16:40:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=55137"},"modified":"2017-10-17T16:40:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:40:57","slug":"dpp-causes-fracas-in-nsanje-lalanje-voters-turn-in-large-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/dpp-causes-fracas-in-nsanje-lalanje-voters-turn-in-large-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"DPP causes fracas in Nsanje Lalanje, voters turn in large numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa and another MEC official saved the life of a senior DPP official identified as Salif Gova after a mob, suspected to be MCP supporters, descended on him ready to stone him on suspicion that he was campaigning for a DPP candidate.<\/p>\n

The mob descended on Gova and another DPP official Smart Kamangila, after they were allegedly found campaigning within the precincts of the voting at Bangula primary school in Nsanje.<\/p>\n

Gova was whisked away and kept in police custody for his own safety.<\/p>\n

Earlier, some angry people deflated tyres of a car suspected to be distributing DPP campaign paraphernalia after the campaign period ended.<\/p>\n

The police also whisked another vehicle which the people wanted to torch over similar allegations.<\/p>\n

Most of the polling centres were opened for voting at exactly 6 o\u2019clock in the morning and in Ndirande Makata ward where there are four contestants the turnout was good early in the morning.<\/p>\n

In Lilongwe Msozi North, voting had to be stopped for a few minutes after some quarters doubted the indelible ink that was being used.<\/p>\n

While In Mayani North ward, some people failed to vote after they discovered that their names were not in the voters’ register.<\/p>\n

In Nsanje Lalanje, voting started early as around six and by 5 AM, people had already started queuing to cast their votes.<\/p>\n

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Our reporters there say most of the voters looked excited to choose their Parliamentarian for the area.<\/p>\n

Although there was heavy presence of armed police, the elections have so far been described as peaceful.<\/p>\n

In the elections, 160,000 voters are expected to cast votes in 3 constituencies and 3 wards.<\/p>\n

Political analysts and social commentators say this is a litmus test for major parties Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).<\/p>\n

Times crew is on the ground, providing minute to minute updates of the election.<\/p>\n

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MEC spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa and another MEC official saved the life of a senior DPP official identified as Salif Gova after a mob, suspected to be MCP supporters, descended on him ready to stone him on suspicion that he was campaigning for a DPP candidate. The mob descended on Gova and another DPP official Smart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55137","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\/55137","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=55137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55142,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55137\/revisions\/55142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}