Af Sam Banda Jnr, AfricaNews
BLANTYRE, Malawi, 18 May 2009: Malawians go to polls on Tuesday to elect its president and members of parliament which will see the president Bingu Wa Mutharika battle it out with six other presidential candidates.
Mutharika who came to power in 2004 seek a second term and was tipped to win by a survey which was conducted recently.
Meanwhile observers led by Ghana’s former president John Kufour have called for peaceful, free and fair elections. Kufour is also reported to have bemoaned Malawi’s state media bias over opposition parties.
The ex-Ghana leader said it was important that the state broadcasters reported fairly on the elections for the good of the country.
– The situation is not healthy because the state media in the country has continuously been biased towards the opposition, he said.
Two thirds of the country’s 13 million people live on less than 1 US dollar a day and stalemates between the government and opposition in parliament have held up budgets for months.
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