A civil rights activist has called for urgent electoral reforms to ensure that mayors and municipal chairpersons are elected by the general public rather than by sitting councillors. Currently, Malawi’s Local Government Act of 1998 grants council members the exclusive power to elect mayors and chairpersons—a system that, according to Aloisious Nthenda, Team Leader at […]

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