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		</div><p>Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika has narrowly won re-election with 38% of the votes in last week’s polls, the electoral commission has declared.</p>
<p>Mr Mutharika’s victory was announced in Blantyre, Malawi’s largest city, immediately after the High Court in Lilongwe, the capital, threw out an injunction preventing the electoral commission from announcing the winner.</p>
<p>The ban was obtained on Saturday by opposition candidate Lazarus Chakwera, who came in a close second with 35% of the votes.</p>
<p>Former vice president Saulos Chilima came in third with 20% of the ballots.</p>
<p>The other four presidential candidates collectively got nearly 6% of the vote.</p>
<p>In the parliamentary elections, Mr Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party won 63 seats in the legislative body, while Mr Chakwera’s Malawi Congress Party got 55 seats and 52 independent candidates were elected.</p>
<p>According to the official results, 5.1 million Malawians voted in the May 21 election, representing 74% of the registered voters, said electoral commission chairwoman Jane Ansah.</p>
<p>Mr Chakwera had called for a recount in 10 of Malawi’s 28 districts but the commission declined, saying that the results had been checked at several stages.</p>
<p>In ruling that the results should be announced, the judge said the electoral commission is mandated by law to finalise the electoral process in a timely manner.</p>
<p>He also said there could be a judicial review of the result that the opposition leader had sought in his application.</p>
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