Malawian minister shoots himself dead after losing seat
By AFP
Posted Thursday, May 22 2014 at 12:17
A Malawian minister has killed himself after losing his seat in Tuesday's
election, police say.
Outgoing deputy Local Government Minister Godfrey Kamanya shot himself in
his home, according to police.
Meanwhile, Official results have not yet been declared in what was expected
to be a tight presidential race. Malawi election officials have had to
resort to fax and email to tally votes from this week's election after the
electronic system broke down, delaying the release of any results, the chief
elections officer said Thursday.
The system "is refusing to take the information from the ground where our
data clerks are stationed to send the results," chief elections officer
Willie Kalonga told AFP.
As a "back-up solution," officials in the southern African country's 28
districts were sending the results manually via fax and email to the
national elections centre in Blantyre.
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has not yet released any preliminary
results after Tuesday's tight-run polls, which pit incumbent Joyce Banda
against her rival and predecessor's brother Peter Mutharika.
Around 7.5 million people were eligible to vote in the fifth democratic
elections since the end of dictatorship 20 years ago.
The MEC will only announce results when 30 per cent of the votes have been
counted, and is currently "not anywhere in the neighbourhood" of that
figure, MEC chairman Maxon Mbendera said Wednesday.
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