Afrobarometer: Eeeish! Malawi’s 2014 Elections: Amid Concerns About Fairness, Outcome is Too Close to Call. Key Findings: ELECTION CONTEXT Malawians express widespread concern about the current direction of their country: 1. 78% say the country is going in the wrong direction in 2014, while just 18% say it is going in the right direction. Dissatisfaction has increased from 2012, although even then a majority of 51% said things were going in the wrong direction (Figure 1) 2. 49% say they are satisfied with the way democracy works in Malawi in 2014, down slightly from 53% who said the same in 2012 3. President Banda’s approval rating has dropped from a high of 68% shortly after she took office in 2012, to just 38% in 2014 (with 60% disapproval) afrobarometer.org/files/documents/dispatches/ab_r6_dispatchno1.pdf
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