Vote counting continued Sunday in Malawi after this week's general election despite an attempt by President Joyce Banda to stop the counting and call a new election within 90 days. According to dpa, the initial count after Tuesday's vote was to be followed by a recount to make sure the result was not influenced by fraud, as alleged by Banda. The president said Saturday she had ordered the electoral commission to stop counting the votes in order to hold a new election in which she would no longer contest the presidency. But the electoral commission, the Law Society of Malawi and the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) - the forerunner in the poll - obtained a court injunction ordering the vote count to continue. The court said only the electoral commission could deal with issues related to the elections and that one of the candidates could not nullify the vote.
