{"id":61938,"date":"2020-02-13T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61938"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:32:37","slug":"malawi-leader-loses-election-court-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=61938","title":{"rendered":"Malawi leader loses election court challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Malawi-leader-loses-election-court-challenge-864853?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/610\/61011488.295.jpg\" alt=\"President Peter Mutharika said overturning his election win was a 'serious subversion of justice'\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>President Peter Mutharika <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> LILONGWE, Feb 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Constitutional Court in Malawi has rejected an appeal, brought by President Peter Mutharika and Malawi\u2019s electoral commission, to suspend the judgement it made last week annulling May&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court also dismissed the electoral body&#8217;s claim that another election would be too expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Dingiswayo Madise said democracy was costly and the rights of citizens were paramount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court\u2019s initial ruling invalidated Mutharika\u2019s narrow victory on the grounds of widespread polling irregularities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has ordered a re-run of the poll within five months. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Peter Mutharika LILONGWE, Feb 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Constitutional Court in Malawi has rejected an appeal, brought by President Peter Mutharika and Malawi\u2019s electoral commission, to suspend the judgement it made last week annulling May&#8217;s presidential election. The court also dismissed the electoral body&#8217;s claim that another election would be too expensive. Judge Dingiswayo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61938"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}