Winning 58.57% of the vote, Malawi's electoral commission announced that opposition leader Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera defeated incumbent President Arthur Peter Mutharika and won the nation's rerun presidential vote. Mr. Chakwera said that his victory is a victory for "democracy and justice", and added "My heart is bubbling with joy!".
The 2019 election originally saw a narrow victory for Mr. Mutharika by under 159,000 votes. However in February of 2020, Malawi's Constitutional Court annulled Mr. Mutharika's May 2019 election victory, citing vote tampering and the use of correction fluid to alter the vote tallies.
Note: The first photo used in this post depicts Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera and was retrieved at 19:32 local Vancouver time on June 27th, 2020, from his Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/DrLazarusChakwera/. The second photo depicts Arthur Peter Mutharika, and is from the public domain and can be used for commercial purposes without any attribution or citation.
