Court judgment praised by analysts as a key sign democracy is alive on a continent where many authoritarian regimes have clung to power for decades
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Peter Mutharika waves at a parade after his inauguration in Blantyre, Malawi, last May. In a 500-page judgment that took nearly 10 hours to read, Malawi’s Constitutional Court annulled the May, 2019, presidential election that had declared Peter Mutharika as the winner with 38.6 per cent of the vote.
The irregularities were “so widespread, systematic and grave” that the integrity of the voting results was “seriously compromised” and could not be trusted, the court said. It was the first election to be overturned in the history of the southern African country since it gained independence from Britain in 1964.
He noted that the Malawi court and the Kenyan court in 2017 had both set a higher democratic standard than the foreign election observers who had monitored the voting. The foreign observers had largely endorsed the official results in both countries. Ken Opalo, an African studies professor at Georgetown University in Washington, said the Malawi court ruling “will go a long way in normalizing nullifications of obviously fraudulent elections.”
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