Since taking over the presidency in April 2012, President Joyce Banda
says she has laid enough foundation on which she can start rebuilding a
reformed Malawi hence her plans to contest for the presidency in the
forthcoming elections.
The President was speaking Friday during the presentation ceremony of her nomination papers to the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) which took place at Comesa Hall in Blantyre.
“I am ready to implement a transformational agenda in order to improve the living standards of people in this country whose large proportion lives within the basic essential existence to a middle class economy,” explained Dr Banda.
She said as a nation, Malawi needs not to embrace pathetic situations like living in glass thatched houses in the rural areas 50 years after independence.
“Programmes like Farm Input Subsidy Programme, Farm Input Loan Programme, A cow a family, Mudzi Transformation Trust and others will continue as one way of empowering Malawians.” added president Banda.
The Malawi leader also emphasized on her plans to improve girl-child education as well as champion the already existing safe motherhood programme which aims at improving the welfare of girls and women in the country.
On the approaching tripartite elections slated for May 20, this year, the President assured Malawians of a free and fair election in order to allow Malawians exercise their right to choose a leader of their preference.
“No fear or intimidation will engulf the approaching election,” President Banda assured.
Chairman for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), Justice Maxon Mbendera (SC) cleared the air on the tension that lies between a free and fair election and the incumbent president who he said enjoys extreme visibility during campaign period as that falls within her office privileges as compared to the other candidates.
Mbendera said the only solution to the situation is to improve the other candidates’ situations by giving them a chance of appearing in the media be it television or radio so that the campaign exercise becomes a fair deal.
“We cannot have a vacuum in the president’s office as such the serving president cannot resign to avoid the huge media attention he or she gets as a nation’s leader for the sake of campaign and as a commission we suggest the improvement of the other contestant’s access to public media as a solution,” explained Mbendera.
Mbendera also indicated that despite the circulating media reports insinuating that MEC is geared to favouring the ruling People’s Party (PP) the body is ready to ensure that Malawians are not reaped off their democratic right of choosing rightful elected leaders through a free and fair electoral process.
“I have never had any discussion with the President regarding manipulating election results if at all we have spoken is on necessary funding issues as MEC gets its funding from the government and surely if MEC’s getting funded by government is a problem, then no commission will ever conduct a free and fair election in this country,” he explained.
President Banda was the 10th of the expected 12 candidates that have come forth to indicate their interest to contest for the presidency. Starting Monday 10th February to Friday the 14th nomination papers have been submitted to the election monitoring body (MEC) and after seven days of scrutinizing them, the body will release names of all the eligible contestants.
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The President was speaking Friday during the presentation ceremony of her nomination papers to the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) which took place at Comesa Hall in Blantyre.
“I am ready to implement a transformational agenda in order to improve the living standards of people in this country whose large proportion lives within the basic essential existence to a middle class economy,” explained Dr Banda.
She said as a nation, Malawi needs not to embrace pathetic situations like living in glass thatched houses in the rural areas 50 years after independence.
“Programmes like Farm Input Subsidy Programme, Farm Input Loan Programme, A cow a family, Mudzi Transformation Trust and others will continue as one way of empowering Malawians.” added president Banda.
The Malawi leader also emphasized on her plans to improve girl-child education as well as champion the already existing safe motherhood programme which aims at improving the welfare of girls and women in the country.
On the approaching tripartite elections slated for May 20, this year, the President assured Malawians of a free and fair election in order to allow Malawians exercise their right to choose a leader of their preference.
“No fear or intimidation will engulf the approaching election,” President Banda assured.
Chairman for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), Justice Maxon Mbendera (SC) cleared the air on the tension that lies between a free and fair election and the incumbent president who he said enjoys extreme visibility during campaign period as that falls within her office privileges as compared to the other candidates.
Mbendera said the only solution to the situation is to improve the other candidates’ situations by giving them a chance of appearing in the media be it television or radio so that the campaign exercise becomes a fair deal.
“We cannot have a vacuum in the president’s office as such the serving president cannot resign to avoid the huge media attention he or she gets as a nation’s leader for the sake of campaign and as a commission we suggest the improvement of the other contestant’s access to public media as a solution,” explained Mbendera.
Mbendera also indicated that despite the circulating media reports insinuating that MEC is geared to favouring the ruling People’s Party (PP) the body is ready to ensure that Malawians are not reaped off their democratic right of choosing rightful elected leaders through a free and fair electoral process.
“I have never had any discussion with the President regarding manipulating election results if at all we have spoken is on necessary funding issues as MEC gets its funding from the government and surely if MEC’s getting funded by government is a problem, then no commission will ever conduct a free and fair election in this country,” he explained.
President Banda was the 10th of the expected 12 candidates that have come forth to indicate their interest to contest for the presidency. Starting Monday 10th February to Friday the 14th nomination papers have been submitted to the election monitoring body (MEC) and after seven days of scrutinizing them, the body will release names of all the eligible contestants.
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