Anxiety, tension as court orders halt in Malawi vote results

BLANTYRE: A Malawi court on Saturday ordered the electoral board not to announce the May 21 presidential election results, following opposition complaints of vote-rigging, hiking anxiety and tension in the southeastern African nation.

The court in the capital Lilongwe on Saturday ordered that"the announcement of presidential results is stayed until the results ... are verified through a transparent recounting of the ballot papers in the presence of representatives of political parties which contested the elections." Some of the documents showed"the same handwriting coming from different polling stations which are miles apart," he said adding there was"a lot of tippexing".

"These serious irregularities have, in fact, worsened and, in the process, the credibility and integrity of these elections have been significantly compromised," he told a news conference.

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