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The 2019 election, also won by Mutharika, was annulled by the country's highest court, which found there had been widespread irregularities, including the use of correction fluid to alter results.

It added that it was carefully checking every tally sheet, after the constitutional court annulled Mutharika's victory in 2019 because of irregularities.

In the meantime, Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party said it had lodged a complaint with the electoral commission, claiming to have discovered irregularities in the count.

“The state’s continued partnership with these companies when such widespread irregularities were identified by one of its own should alarm every taxpayer,” Bourn said.

Businessman Azruddin Mohamed, leader of the WIN party, alleged voting irregularities in Monday's election, even as he celebrated the party having "shaken the pillars of Guyana's political establishment".