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May 28, 2019
The Malawian Electoral CommissionSays President Peter Mutharika Has Been Re-Elected With Thirty Eight Per CentOf The Votes In Last Week’s Polls.
Mutharika’s Victory Was Announced InBlantyre, Malawi’s Largest City, Immediately After The High Court In Lilongwe,The Capital, Threw Out An Injunction Preventing The Electoral Commission FromAnnouncing The Winner.
The Ban Was Obtained By OppositionCandidate Lazarus Chakwera, Who Came In Close Second With Thirty Five Per CentOf The Votes.
Former Vice President Saulos ChilimaCame Third With Twenty Per Cent Of The Ballots. The Other Four PresidentialCandidates Collectively Got Nearly Six Per Cent Of The Vote.
In The Parliamentary Elections,Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party Won Sixty Three Seats In TheLegislative Body, While Chakwera’s Malawi Congress Party Got Fifty Five SeatsAnd Fifty Two Independent Candidates Were Elected.