{UAH} Malawian minister shoots himself dead after losing seat

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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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