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Ruling Party Supporters in Malawi March Against Nullified Presidential
Elections

Lameck Masina

   BLANTYRE, MALAWI - Supporters of Malawi's ruling Democratic Progressive
   Party (DPP) marched in the commercial capital, Blantyre, on Monday to
   protest a ruling by the country's Constitutional Court that nullified
   last May's election and the victory of President Peter Mutharika.

   The protest came two weeks after the party asked the Supreme Court of
   Appeal to overturn the ruling.

   The marchers, who numbered in the hundreds, submitted a petition to the
   court Monday, saying the verdict was an attempt to subvert the will of
   the people.

   A member of the DPP's governing council, Henry Mussa, presented a
   10-point petition through Blantyre City Assembly authorities.

   "The DPP condemns in the strongest terms the manner and style in which
   the elections case court verdict was pronounced," he said. "The ruling
   represents a political coup and an attack on very foundations of our
   electoral democratic order."

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