The Constitutional Court in Malawi has rejected an appeal, brought by President Peter Mutharika and Malawi’s electoral commission, to suspend the judgement it made last week annulling May’s presidential election in the southern African nation. Since last week, opposition supporters in Malawi have been celebrating after a panel of five top judges annulled the results of last May’s presidential election in the country. Many of them said it was a victory for democracy after the two main losing candidates argued in court that there had been irregularities in the vote that saw President Peter Mutharika narrowly elected for a second term. On Thursday, the court rejected an appeal by the incumbent president and dismissed the electoral body’s claim that another election would be too expensive. President Peter Mutharika was declared the winner of last year’s poll with 38.6% of the vote.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 13, 2020 17:26 UTC