The Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has said its board is on standby to reconvene at short notice to help resolve any electoral disputes that may arise from the September 16 General Election.
CMD board chairperson Ben Chakhame said the organisation’s secretariat will monitor the electoral process and alert the board where its intervention is needed to ensure peace and stability.
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In an interview on Wednesday after a board meeting held in Mponela, Dowa ahead of its reconstitution, he said CMD, whose membership is drawn from political parties represented in Parliament, had hoped for a final pre-election meeting with the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to address outstanding issues, but the meeting did not happen.
On the contentious issue of acceptance of results, Chakhame said CMD would only accept a credible outcome.
“We made it clear to say we will accept and move forward as a country should the results be credible. However, we don’t expect dubious or strange declarations. So, on that one, we say we will be observant,” he said.
Two weeks ago network glitches marred MEC’s results management system dry run as data transmission either delayed or failed between district, constituency and national tally centres.
MEC conducted the simulation between 2pm and 4pm to test the effectiveness and efficiency of the system ahead of the September 16 2025 General Election. The dry run was conducted in 73 constituency tally centres in eight councils, namely Nkhata Bay, Dedza, Balaka, Neno, M’Mbelwa, Lilongwe District, Chikwawa, and Blantyre City.
At the Bingu International Convention Centre in Lilongwe, which will serve as the national tally centre, MEC commissioner Limbikani Kamlongera insisted that the integrity of results transmission process for the election will be safeguarded through both technology and openness.
