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Opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera won the elections in Malawi after the previous elections were canceled

Opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera won the new presidential election in Malawi after the Constitutional Court had canceled the previous ones, which were held in 2019 and were won by outgoing President Peter Mutharika. Chakwera got 58 percent of the vote.

In previous elections, the ones canceled, Chakwera had lost about 160,000 votes and had appealed. Several cases of manipulated ballots emerged, in which the votes they had been canceled with the bianchetto and modified.

Malawi is an East African state: it is mainly agricultural and landlocked. It has an area of ​​just over 100 thousand square kilometers, one third of Italy, and just under 20 million inhabitants. He has been independent since 1964 and for nearly thirty years, until the 1990s, the same person has been in power: Hastings Kamuzu Banda.

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