Voters expect results in the president’s poll where economic trouble prevail

Malawi is waiting to find out who will be their next president, as the polls closed in most parts of the country, and the count began.

On Tuesday, thousands of people are in line outside polling stations to vote for the president, deputies and local advisers, hoping to make changes in the country, littered with economic troubles. Some still vote in areas where the poll began late.

In his campaign for the second term, the current President Lazar Chakver promised to correct Malawi’s economy – like his main competitor, former eight -year -old Peter Mutarik.

If no candidate wins more than half the vote, the two best applicants will head to the drain.

“We have anger. I want to change this government. I want young people to work for good work,” said the 28-year-old waitress Etta Bear before going to the vote.

Malawi has long been one of the poorest countries in the world, but was particularly punished recently.

Last year, food costs increase by more than 30%, and wages do not hit.

High inflation was partly delayed in a foreign currency deficit – known as “forex” – in banks.

“There is a lot, especially against forex, unemployment,” said Rachel Chaguza, a 26-year-old university graduate who sells flowers after AFP voting.

“We need to study what is happening wrong and change everything for the better.”

The South African country was also crippled by nationwide electricity shutdown and fuel deficiency. When people lined up for a voting on Tuesday, disappointed motorists continued to form long, daring queues outside gasoline stations.

President Chakver, who promised to resolve this deficit, made a queue to vote with the locals in his native village, Malemba, which is about 56 km (35 miles) northeast of Lylongwe.

Several police officers and military guards watched a 70-year-old girl and his wife when the voters hoped, hoping to look at their president.

Election Effective-is a two horses racing between Chakver and the man he won in 2020, an 85-year-old mutar.

However, there are another 15 candidates, including another former president, and the only head of state Joyce Banda in the country.

A couple of hours before the closure of the polls, the chairman of the election commission Malawi Anabel Metalimando said that 3.7 million people – only half of those who registered for voting – threw her newsletter.

One woman outside the Malebo elementary school told the BBC that she was so eager to throw voting that she was camping there for the night.

Another voter, mercy Nedson something, said: “We voted from the freedom we have here. In other countries, people are unable to take advantage of their voice.”

For the most part, the voting was smoothly progressed by the stations, which amounted to more than 15,000.

However, Reuters reported delays at some stations with problems with biometric readers.

The election commission acknowledged the “queue” in “one -two center”, but stated that these issues were guided.

The provisions were adopted for voters who could not write – they noted their newsletter with the help of fingerprints, while others used the pen to select the candidate.

Prior to the opening of surveys, Ms. Mtalimanja reminded the influence on social media not live and voting documents, as Malawin is prohibited from taking pictures of their ballots.

The vote count began as soon as the polls closed at 14:00 GMT.

The Malawi Election Commission increased by the end of September 24 to announce the President’s results in Tuesday and the end of September 30 in the parliamentary elections.