Loveness Gondwe

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Lovenes Gondwe aka Loveness Gondwe Chihana is a Malawian politician. Gondwe served as Malawi's deputy speaker of the NationalAssembly and she was a member of the Pan-African Parliament.

Life

Gondwe served as Malawi's deputy speaker. She then stood and was declared the winner of the Mziba West constituency in May 2004 by the Malawi Electoral Commission. [1] There had been six candidates and Catherine Nyahara came second. Nyahara appealled citing severali rregulaties in the election by Gondwe her supporters and her husband. The judge disregarded several points but agreed that the election should be re-run. In 2005 Gongdwe and the MEC went again to the Supreme Court to appeal the first judge's decision. [1] The Supreme Court came to the conclusion that Gondwe's initial victory was correct and her and the MEC's appeal was proven. Nyahara was ordered to pay costs. [1]

She was a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Malawi. [2] She challenged Bingu wa Mutharika in the 2009 Malawian general election. In 2018, she briefly joined the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) [3] before she joined the United Transformation Movement. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lovesness Gondwe and the M.E.C v. C. Nyhara" (PDF). Malawi Supreme Court. 2005. Retrieved 15 Feb 2025.
  2. ↑ "List of Members of the Pan African Parliament (as of 15 March 2004)" (PDF). African Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Chauwa, Alfred (2018-02-19). "Malawi: Loveness Gondwe Joins Malawi Congress Party". AllAfrica. Retrieved 2024-11-23.
  4. ↑ Reporter, Nyasa Times (2018-07-17). "65 former MCP central region committee defects to UTM - Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi". www.nyasatimes.com. Retrieved 2025-02-15.


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