Chakwera appeals for peace

Presidential hopeful for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Lazarus Chakwera said Malawians should remain calm and abstain from all kinds of tactics that could lead to violence during this ‘trying times’.

Speaking during a press briefing held in Lilongwe on Thursday, Chakwera said Malawians should not worry as everything will be ‘fine.’

“I would like to express my gratitude to members of the MCP and its supporters for being calm during these trying times and appeal to you all to maintain this peace and calm. I am aware of certain challenges being faced by the electoral body and we have lodged our complaints to the electoral body on the same.

“Some of the serious irregularities include insufficient ballot papers and cardboard boxes being used as ballot boxes, failure to supply torches to polling stations which started voting late and forms from which to record results leading to presiding officers to write using improvised forms,” he said.

Chakwera also said MEC should check the physical results from constituencies’ returning officer against the physical results for both parliamentary and presidential results.

“This is one way of ensuring peaceful, fair and credible elections,” he said.