For months now opposition parties Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM have banded together in supporting Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) demonstrations demanding resignation of Jane Ansah, the head of the southern African nation’s electoral agency that they accuse of helping rig an election to keep Peter Mutharika as president.

However, Jane Ansah who strongly believes that she did nothing wrong and her stance is backed by all international observers is still standing. She believed that The ConCourt court was going to exonerate her. However, when the five Judges ruled against her and demeaned her in their 500-page rambling judgement, she was never deterred. She appealed to the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal and is waiting and hoping for a favorable ruling.

She faced down Public Appointments Committee (PAC) inquiry and confounded the law makers with her understanding of Election laws. They tried to force her to give incriminating YES or NO answers, but she fought back and educated them on the laws and constitution mandates on Elections Management in Malawi.

Before the start of Public Appointments Committee (PAC) inquiry, Jane Ansah was seen posing for pictures and smiling. That irritated her detractors who claimed she was not taking the proceedings seriously.

However, the haters are just such. She did take the proceeding serious enough where she summed the whole election case in two paragraphs below:

• Electoral laws were not breached because of the use of the correctional fluid. Rather the electoral laws were upheld because corrections were made after detecting human errors at poling centers”.

• Electoral Commission Chairperson Justice Jane Ansah SC has told the Public Appointments Committee of Parliament that all decisions made during and after the elections were made by the entire Commission and that there was no single moment that she made a personal decision regarding the management of the May 21 2019 tripartite elections.

Just today MEC Chairperson, Justice Dr. Jane Ansah, was giving a report to the National Elections Consultative Forum #NECOF in Blantyre ahead of the forthcoming fresh presidential poll.

Chair Ansah was reading out the report and said the #NECOF will do a postmortem of the nullified election after the fresh presidential poll.
MEC chairperson Jane Ansah has told National Elections Consultative Forum (NECOF) meeting in Blantyre the commission will respect the Constitutional Court ruling to hold fresh elections within 150 days.

• Dr. Ansah said MEC is preparing for the fresh elections using the same legal frameworks that were used during the 2019 nullified polls since the parliament amended electoral bills are yet to be made laws.

• MEC will accept all proofs of identification under the current law during voter registration since the bill to limit identification proof to a national ID only is yet to be made a law, said Jane.

• On majority interpretation, Chair Jane Ansah said the current law does not allow for a run-off; making it confuse on how to declare winner in the fresh presidential election.

• She said the commission has started preparing for the fresh elections to be held on May 19.

She said so far, #MEC has already recruited BVRJ technicians who have serviced computers to be used in the polling process.

Her detractors are so frustrated that Ibrahim Matola resorted to abusive remarks beneath a politician.

Remarks that many condemned including Former President Joyce Banda who is no friend of Chair Ansah.

There are many things Justice Ansah could have done or said during this electoral process that I do not agree with, but she does not deserve to be spoken to in that manner.

I am told that Hon Matola has apologized but I am very sorry about this apparent abuse of a fellow woman and regardless of who has made the remarks, I condemn them in the strongest manner.

Jane Ansah If anything has proved her mettle despite unwarranted personal attacks mainly from male politicians in Malawi.