On September 24, the Malawi Election Commission announced the results of the presidential elections held on September 16, in the capital Liaoning, the former president of Malawi, the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party Peter Mutharika won, a term of five years.

According to data released by the Malawi Election Commission, Muratika received more than 3 million votes, with a score of 56.8 per cent, while the current president and leader of the Malawi Congress Party, Lazares Chakvila, received more than 17.6 million votes, with a score of 33 per cent.

President, parliament and local government "three-in-one" elections will be held in Malawi on the 16th, and the election committee will announce the results of parliamentary and local government elections in the near future.

Mutharika, 85, was elected president in 2014 and succeeded in * in 2019. In February 2020, Malawi's Constitutional Court ruled that the results of the 2019 presidential election were invalid, requiring a new election to be held within 150 days. Mutharika lost the new presidential election, and Chakwera finally won and was elected.

According to Malawi's Constitution, Malawi's general election is held every five years, and the presidential election adopts a two-round system. If no candidate obtains an absolute majority of votes in the first round of elections, a second round of elections will be held within 60 days.

Situated in Southeast Africa, with an area of less than 120,000 square kilometers, Malawi is one of the least developed countries in the world.