MCP Changes Prayer to Court, Petitions for Re – Run

Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has applied to the court to amend their earlier documents to change their prayer to court.

In their earlier court submissions, they were asking the court to order a recount for some specific districts citing several rigging acts took place.

Modecai Msiska lead counsel for the opposition block said this to the media after the inter-party case scheduling conference in chambers on Wednesday in Lilongwe.

On the other hand their (MCP) counterpart United Transformation Movement (UTM) wanted nullification of the presidential results saying the anomalies were too much.

“I can confirm that on instructions from our clients we have made an application to the court to allow us amend our petition so that instead of us requesting for a recount of the votes, we would like the court to order that fresh elections be conducted. And we have asked the court to allow us amend our documents accordingly to reflect the new direction,” said Msiska.

MCP, which alongside UTM Party led by the country’s immediate past Vice-president Saulos Chilima, is challenging results of the presidential election in which President Peter Mutharika of DPP was declared the winner followed by Chakwera and Chilima in second and third place, respectively.