{"id":23299,"date":"2022-05-21T19:51:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2"},"modified":"2022-05-21T20:12:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:12:43","slug":"malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2","title":{"rendered":"MALGA considering city residents\u2019 vote in electing mayors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The Malawi Local Government Association (MALGA) has said it will consider views that are for the idea that city dwellers should be taking part in electing mayors other than councillors only.<\/p>\n<p>MALGA Chairperson, Hadrod Mkandawire, said the position of city mayor represents residents and not councillors only and it is important that city dwellers should be part of the electorate. Mkandawire added that Minister of Local Government, Professor Blessings Chinsinga, is sharing the same view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are reviewing our laws and we have an opportunity to look at this issue before everything is presented to the national assembly. The Minister of Local Government assured us that he also shares this view,\u201d explained Mkandawire.<\/p>\n<p>Political expert George Phiri said this can help to reduce political interference, corruption and favouritism in handling other issues in city councils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mayor should have majority vote in a particular city from the residents other than only councillors voting,\u201d said Phiri. If parliament can approve this, it will be effective from 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. The Malawi Local Government Association (MALGA) has said it will consider views that are for the idea that city dwellers should be taking part in electing mayors other than councillors only. MALGA Chairperson, Hadrod Mkandawire, said the position of city mayor represents residents and not councillors only and it is important that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,10],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-23299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MALGA considering city residents\u2019 vote in electing mayors - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Malawi Local Government Association (MALGA) has said it will consider views that are for the idea that city dwellers ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MALGA considering city residents\u2019 vote in electing mayors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Malawi Local Government Association (MALGA) has said it will consider views that are for the idea that city dwellers ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-21T19:51:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-21T20:12:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-6289479b171f6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"756\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"701\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MALGA considering city residents\u2019 vote in electing mayors\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-21T19:51:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-21T20:12:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-6289479b171f6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malga-considering-city-residents-vote-in-electing-mayors-2\",\"name\":\"MALGA considering city residents\u2019 vote in electing mayors - 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