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schema:articleBody	Protesters on Thursday padlocked Malawi's electoral commission offices in a new bid to force the panel's chief to quit after a top court overturned last May's presidential elections. The Constitutional Court on February 3 annulled results that declared President Peter Mutharika the narrow victor, and lashed the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for "incompetence." The unprecedented verdict was triggered by use of correction fluid on tally sheets -- the papers on which election overseers entered ballot counts. Around a thousand protesters marched for five kilometres (three miles) to the MEC offices in the commercial capital Blantyre and used rusty chains to lock its entrance gates. The military kept watch but did not intervene. In the administrative capital Lilongwe around 5,000 people braved rain to march to the MEC offices. After chaining and padlocking its entrance, they handed the keys to an army officer, AFP correspondent saw. The protesters demanded the commission's chairwoman, Jane Ansah, step down. "We are not stopping here until Jane Ansah resigns," Masauko Thawe, leader of the Blantyre protests, told AFP. "This is the MEC that we don't want because we cannot trust them. We need a new MEC which can operate to the expectations of all Malawians." Ansah says she will quit only if the Supreme Court upholds the Constitutional Court judgement, which also ordered new elections within 150 days. She told lawmakers this week that the correction fluid -- referred to by its commercial name of Tipp-Ex -- had been used only to correct results, not distort them. A bid by Mutharika and the MEC to suspend the ruling was rejected by the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. It is the first time a presidential election has been challenged on legal grounds in Malawi since independence from Britain in 1964, and only the second vote result to be cancelled in Africa after the 2017 Kenya presidential vote. str/sn/ri
schema:headline	Malawi protestors padlock election commission after vote debacle
schema:mentions	Peter Mutharika Padlocked Supreme Court of Pakistan Padlock Agence France-Presse Malawi Lock and key Africa Kenya President of the United States Thawe Tipp-Ex Jane Ansah Correction fluid Blantyre Constitutional Court of Turkey Lilongwe Election commission »more»
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schema:datePublished	2020-02-13 (xsd:date)
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