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The Malawi Parliament Building is a state building located in the city centre of Lilongwe and serves as the seat of the National Assembly of Malawi, the country's supreme legislative body. The building is also open to the public for guided tours and educational programs.
The 1994 Constitution provided for a Senate, but Parliament repealed it. Malawi therefore has a unicameral legislature in practice. [3] The National Assembly has 193 members of Parliament (MPs) who are directly elected in single-member constituencies using the simple majority (or first-past-the-post) system and serve five-year terms. [4]
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Malawi elects on the national level a head of state and government (Malawi Constitution, 1994 p 27) – the President – and a national assembly.The President and members of the National Assembly, elected simultaneously at a General Election, together form the Malawian Parliament owing to the President's role as both head of government and head of state.
Constituencies of Malawi are used to elect members of the National Assembly, the lower chamber of the Malawi Parliament. [1] There are over 193 constituencies, based on a formula where these constituencies were to be delineated based on population numbers. Each constituency returns one MP. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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Following a series of delays, Television Malawi opened on 1 April 1999, in time for that year's elections. Extensive coverage of the campaign was carried. [ 3 ] Initially the station had limited reach in Lilongwe and Blantyre , for a mere few thousand viewers, with the long-term aim at extending its reach nationwide and attaining as much as ...
The Malawi Congress Party was the successor to the Nyasaland African Congress (NAC) party, which was banned in 1959. The MCP was founded in 1959 by Orton Chirwa, Nyasaland's first African barrister, soon after his release from Gwelo Prison, and other NAC leaders including Aleke Banda and S. Kamwendo, in agreement with Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who remained in prison.