Banda accepts poll result

The Malawi Life President, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, said yesterday he accepted the result of this week's democracy referendum but said his government would not resign or be replaced by an interim government, Reuter reports from Blantyre. Dr Banda said Monday's two-to-one vote for multi- party rule presented voters with a choice of political systems but did not give the opposition the right to form a transitional government.