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A second defeated candidate in Malawi's presidential election Saturday opened a legal proceeding with a view to obtaining the cancellation of last week's vote by incumbent President Peter Mutharika for fraud. canceled
Mutharika, leader of the Progressive Democratic Party (DPP) in power, won the presidential election with 38.57% of the vote. Leader of the opposition, Lazarus Chakwera, came in second with 35.41%, while former vice president Saulos Chilima got 20.24%, according to official results.
The two defeated candidates alleged fraud. Chakwera has already begun a court battle to cancel the vote. Chilima said that he would also make a court challenge.
"We want the court to decide our case when we challenge the results of the presidency," said AFP Chilima, a former member of parliament for Mutharika.
"In fact, on the basis of the irregularities that we have reported, we would like the court to cancel the results of the presidency so that we can start all over again," he said.
Malawi has a "win-take-all" system, and in 2014 Mutharika also narrowly defeated the Chakwera, a former evangelist.
Mutharika came to power in pledging to fight corruption after the "Cashgate" scandal a year earlier had revealed mbadive looting in the coffers of the poor country of southern Africa, heavily dependent on corruption. 39, foreign aid.
But he himself has been accused of corruption.
Chilima, a 46-year-old young man, was Mutharika's vice-presidential candidate in 2014 and became vice-president, but he left the ruling party last year and set up the United Transformation Movement (UTM) to participate in the elections.
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP), in Chakwera, obtained a brief court injunction to prevent publication of the results, citing "very flagrant irregularities".
The party said the result sheets were covered with correction fluid and that some of the remote polling station sheets bore the same writing.
But the injunction was lifted on Monday and Mutharika was declared winner a few hours later.
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