Malawi: Govt Makes It Cheaper for Women to Run in 2019 Election

Blantyre — Female candidates will pay 25 percent less than men to run for parliament in Malawi under a scheme to get more women into power in a general election due next year, authorities have said.

The decision, announced on Thursday by the Electoral Commission, follows a fall in the number of women MPs in the last national election in 2014, when the country's first female president Joyce Banda lost power.

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