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Publisher (J.T)
May 31, 2019
Afterhis swearing-in earlier this week, Malawi president Peter Mutharika was officiallyinaugurated today at the same venue where he was sworn in, the Kamuzu Stadiumin Blantyre.
AHigh Court lifted an injunction of the announcement of results on Monday,allowing the elections body to finalize the collation of results from the May 21presidential polls.
Mutharikaleading the ruling Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) polled 1,940,709 .The mainopposition Malawi Congress Party, MCP, led by Lazarus Chakwera (MCP) polled1,781,740.
Whilesthe president’s inauguration was ongoing, the main opposition MCP’s leaderaddressed a press conference that rejected the results of the polls citingelectoral fraud.
Whilesconfirming that an action has been instituted in the courts to nullify theresults, Chakwera reiterated the party’s resolve to legally retrieve itsmandate from the DPP which he described as a “mafia state.”
Meanwhile,the Nation newspaper reports that the MCP’s Director for Youth, RichardChimwendo, says the party’s supporters will now take to the streets todemonstrate against what the party says is electoral fraud.