At the start of second day of historic presidential elections nullification petition case lawyer for the first petitioner Saulos Chilima of UTM Party asked the panel of five High Court of Malawi judges sitting as the Constitutional Court to scrap the translations from English to Chichewa, the national lingua franca and also limitation of cross-examining in order to expedite the case to an ambitious 12-day period to conclude trial.
Chilenga, representing Chilima, says limiting cross examination is discretionary power court hasGeorge Mtchuka Mwale, a member of Chilima's legal team
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