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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
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
The political and campaign financing regulatory regime has come under scrutiny amid observations that for 30 years there has been zero implementation, making the electoral democracy framework to gravitate towards kleptocracy. In an analysis by governance expert Henry Chingaipe at the recent Malawi Law Society (MLS) conference, it is noted that lack of implementation of
Malawi Law Society (MLS) and 10 other law societies from Southern African Development Community (Sadc) have signed an alliance charter with the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (Afsa) Sadc Division. The charter seeks to facilitate the establishment of a regional seat of International Arbitration. MLS president Patrick Mpaka said yesterday in an interview that the