Political and legal experts have advised political parties to carefully bargain and agree on trusted electoral alliances ahead of the September 16 2025 General Elections to avoid getting raw deals. Speaking in separate interviews yesterday amid lack of a binding legal framework on electoral alliances or coalitions, political and legal pundits argued that regulating alliances
Two of the country ’s prominent legal minds have faulted the Malawi Law Society (MLS) for proposing criminalising unfulfilled election campaign promises, saying the move is akin to seeking legal solutions to a political problem. In its communiqué dated March 24 issued at the end of the 2024 annual conference, MLS said criminalising politicians’ campaign
Legal experts say courts are largely responsible for their abuse and stalling of cases by granting interim orders and thereafter not ensuring substantive legal action commences. But the courts say Malawi practises the British common law which states that the court has to be moved first. Justice Link executive director Justin Dzonzi said in a
European Union (EU) Ambassador Rune Skinnebach has faulted the sluggish implementation of the Political Parties Act (PPA), especially on party financing, saying the non-disclosure of political party funders is breeding corruption. The envoy, speaking in an interview on the sidelines of an interaction with the media in Blantyre on Tuesday evening, said the EU monitoring
Debate has ensued on the status of President Lazarus Chakwera’s withholding of delegated powers to Vice-President Saulos Chilima after dispatching him to represent the country at the 60th Anniversary of the Union Day for Tanzania. The decision comes two years after the President, in a June 2022 national address, announced the withholding of “any delegated