Prospective voters for the 2025 Malawi General Election from Salima district on Monday started showing up at Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Registration centres to have their names registered in the electoral voter roll.
According to MEC’s District Elections Officer for Salima Alinafe Chisenga, the registration exercise is progressing very well, and all 187 centres were opened at exactly 8:00 AM.
She said so far they have not received any major challenges from the centres, she comfortably said that they have everything under control.
Chisenga however showed dismay by the absence of political party monitors in most registration centres, adding that MEC is a transparent entity and values the involvement of all electoral stakeholders in the electoral processes.
“It is worrisome to note that monitors of party members are absent because supervisors were advised to receive and register the monitors once they arrive at centres, unfortunately, reports of absent monitors have been received from different centres.
“In terms of technical glitches that we have faced, there is none that we are failing to handle, so far we have everything under control and our machines are picking up and working very well,” she said.
She encouraged citizens to go in large numbers to vote so that they would be able to vote in the 2025 General elections.
One of the potential voters who registered at Salima Community Hall Centre, Chiguzeni Kamanga said the process was very fast, it took him less than 5 minutes, to be registered into the voters roll.
“I managed to get registered very fast and went to do my day-to-day duties without any distractions. I am here encouraging my fellow citizens to go and get registered because the process is very fast,” he said.
A tour of 10 centres across Salima district showed an encouraging number of potential voters queuing to have their names registered, the registration process is being conducted with the newly adopted voter registration system using Election Management Devices and it will run from October 21 to November 3, 2024.
