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Peter Mutharika declared winner of Malawi polls APA, Star Africa, 30 May 2014 at 10:35 pm The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has declared the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Peter Mutharika as the winner of the May 20 presidential election with 36.4 percent of the vote. Confirming the results in Lilongwe late on Friday, MEC Chairperson Maxon Mbendera said Mutharika beat other contenders for the presidency with 1,904,399 million votes nationwide ahead of his nearest rival Dr Lazurus Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) who garnered 1,455,480 votes representing 27.8 percent. Incumbent President Joyce Banda polled 1,056,000 votes representing 20 percent while the youthful Atupele Muluzi of the United Democratic Front (UDF) got 717,000 votes representing 13.7 percent. "By virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby declare candidate Professor Peter Mutharika and running mate Saulos Chilima as President and vice president elect respectively of the Republic of Malawi," Mbendera said. The MEC official advised the president elect to stay focused on the country's challenges and spend taxpayers' money effectively and honestly and remain accountable to Malawians regardless of tribe, religion and region. Mbendera told the losers in the election to accept the outcome and work with Mutharika, the brother of late President Bingu Wa Mutharika who died in 2012 and was succeeded by Joyce Banda. Earlier on Friday, High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda had ruled that the electoral body was free to announce official results. Over seven million people were registered to vote for president, 193 MPs and 462 ward councillors in Malawi's first presidential, parliamentary and local elections since the advent of multi-party democracy in 1994. From: http://en.starafrica.com/news/peter-mutharika-declared-winner-of-malawi-poll s.html -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
