Banda 'may start reforms'
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Your support makes all the difference.HARARE (Reuter) - Malawi's President-for-Life, Hastings Banda, may soon embark on reforms to end one-party politics, prompted by a drop in the turnout of voters in a general election, diplomats said yesterday.
The government said 80 per cent of electors voted in the two- day poll last week. But observers and diplomats reported a turn-out as low as 40 per cent.
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