Chakwera and Justice Ansah walk together after the meeting<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBut sources close to the meeting told Daily Times that the meeting did not go Chakwera\u2019s way as Mec refused the extension proposal for fear of affecting the whole electoral calendar.<\/p>\n
Chakwera, who is also President of the country’s oldest political party,\u00a0 Malawi Congress Party,\u00a0 refused to disclose the contents of the meeting saying “it was not for the public.”<\/p>\n
However, without disclosing much Ansah, told journalists after the meeting that the discussion centered around the first phase of the voter registration exercise which started in some parts of the Central Region.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have had a meeting and it was a good meeting. Basically it was about the first phase of registration which you already know about. As Mec chair I don\u2019t make decisions by myself. Resolutions and decisions of the commission are made by the commission by consensus,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Commenting on the concerns raised by MCP and other stakeholders on low voter registration turnout, Ansah said they will have National elections consultative forum (Necof) next week which will tackle all the concerns raised.<\/p>\n
Earlier on in a telephone interview MCP publicity, Maurice Munthali, threatened to drag the commission to court claiming what Mec is doing is raising suspicions of rigging.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe commission is not being helpful enough. The elections are not for Mec but for the people and all stakeholders must play their role and take part\u2026 all we are saying is that let us see how we can work things out. Together we have to sit down and find solutions to the concerns,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ansah described Munthali\u2019s remarks as nonsense.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is speaking nonsense…when you begin to make accusations, the voters take them seriously, Mec will put into positions who have not won. So that\u2019s nonsense,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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By Serah Makodetsa Leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera yesterday met Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) Chairperson Justice Ansah in attempts to push for the extension of the first phase of the voter registration exercise. The first phase ended this week and the second phase rolls out on July 13, 2018 as the country prepares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68310","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=68310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68313,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68310\/revisions\/68313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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