Hasting Banga Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/hasting-banga/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 19 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Hasting Banga Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/hasting-banga/ 32 32 Close run Malawi election has not provision for a run-off https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/close-run-malawi-election-has-not-provision-for-a-run-off/ Sun, 19 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/close-run-malawi-election-has-not-provision-for-a-run-off/ Malawians go the polls to tomorrow for parliamentary and presidential elections. Organizers fear that the race for the top job is being so closely contested they might regret not having  made provision for a run-off poll. Incumbent Peter Mutharika, seeking a second and final presidential term, is being challenged by his hand-picked deputy Saulos Chilima […]

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]]> Malawians go the polls to tomorrow for parliamentary and presidential elections.

Organizers fear that the race for the top job is being so closely contested they might regret not having  made provision for a run-off poll.

Incumbent Peter Mutharika, seeking a second and final presidential term, is being challenged by his hand-picked deputy Saulos Chilima who is getting traction with his strong anti corruption stance.

Lazarus Chakera has revived Hastings Banda’s Malawi Congress Party to take up the cudgels as another front runner.

He has the endorsement of  former President  Joyce Banda, who stepped out of the race to back an opponents of Mutharika who trounced her in 2014 and forced her into exile to escape corruption charges.

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