Saying that the the vote was rigged, opposition supporters rampaged through the streets Sunday after electoral officials declared President Bakili Muluzi's hand-picked successor the winner of Malawi's third multiparty elections. Police fired rubber bullets as hundreds of coalition supporters poured into the streets in Blantyre's suburbs, erecting barricades and setting fire to three offices of the ruling party. Muluzi, Malawi's first democratically elected leader, chose economic planning minister Bingu wa Mutharika to succeed him after failing to alter the constitution to allow himself another term.