Eight detention for alleged electoral fraud

In Malawi, the police arrested eight people on charges of alleged electoral fraud, while the country is awaiting the final results of the public elections on Tuesday.

The Inspector General Merlin Yulamo said that the suspects, who were working as a data entry writer, were trying to process the numbers.

The Malawi 2019 elections marred the controversy when it canceled the highest court of Victory of President Peter Muttharika, noting widespread violations.

As a result, the Malawi election committee is at a state of high alert for any possible issues. Official contracts indicate, so far, that Mutharika is leading the race for the presidency with the current Lazaros Chairura in second place.

More results are expected to be released from the 36th Malawi area on Saturday – the candidate needs to win more than 50 % of the votes, or a tour is performed.

Meanwhile, the Malawi Conference Party in Chakuera said it had filed a complaint with the electoral committee, claiming that it had discovered violations of counting.

Officials did not specify what these violations are.

The committee is expected to announce the results of the elections only after all the votes have been identified and verified in order to avoid the possibility of challenging the end result.

According to the law, the electoral committee has until the end of Wednesday to announce the final lists.

In 2019, when Mawtharika’s victory was canceled, one of the court said that there was widespread tampering, including the use of Tipp-EX correction liquid on the results papers.

Chakuerra, 70, won a wide margin, and pushed him to the presidency.

Mutharika, 85, hopes to restore his position while it will be an exciting political return.

Malawi also voted in the parliamentary and local elections after a campaign dominated by the worsening economic crisis, which witnessed a severe shortage of fuel and foreign currency.

The official inflation rate is approximately 30 %, with frozen chicken in a supermarket in the capital, Lilongoy, at a cost of about 20 dollars (15 pounds), in a nation in which most people live on two dollars per day or less.