Malawi Congress Party (MCP) deputy president, Sidik Mia in an attempt to get onto the front foot ahead of fresh presidential elections next Tuesday took the campaign for MCP presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera to vendors at Blantyre market. “This fresh election is a once-in-a-generation chance to transform our country, vote for Chakwera to be the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said the judicial review on the appointment of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners will not affect the preparations for the June 23 presidential election. The party secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka says the party is not seeking the court to suspend the commissioners. MCP president Lazarus Chakwera has taken President Peter […]
High Court judge Kenyatta Nyirenda on Monday granted leave for opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera to move for judicial review against the appointment of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners Linda Kunje and Jean Mathanga. President Peter Mutharika retained the two commissioners from a MEC team which Parliament deemed incompetent in the […]
In the beginning there were two different political parties—Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM; each with its own message to woo voters. The MCP led by Lazarus Chakwera, had a catchy HI-5 phrase premised on: servant leadership, prospering together, ending corruption, rule of law and national unity. On the other hand, Saulos Chilima’s UTM had […]
A survey conducted by Malawi’s Institute of Public Opinion Research (Ipor) indicates that Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera will win the court-sanctioned fresh presidential election by majority votes required to form the next government. Ipor national investigator Dr Boniface Dulani presented the State of Governance report in Blantyre on Monday. The Ipor survey indicate […]
Chiefs from the Shire Valley districts of Nsanje and Chikwawa have honoured the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) deputy president Mohammad Sidik Mia with a traditional ‘Mbuya’ tittle for what they called his interest to serve the aspirations of the people from the two districts. The title ‘Mbuya’ whose literal meaning is granny was once […]
Vice President Salous Chilima has urged people in his home district Ntcheu to come out in large numbers and vote for Dr Lazarous Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), saying the opposition Tonse alliance is united and determined to redeem the country from “thieves and liars”. Chilima said this on Saturday at a rally he […]
Dowa East legislator Richard Chimwendo Banda (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) has said MCP presidential hopeful Dr Lazarus Chakwera the torchbearer for the grand opposition Tonse alliance with Vice-President Saulos Chilima of UTM Party as his running, are heading for victory in the court-sanctioned fresh presidential elections slated for June 23. Chimwendo Banda said this in Parliament […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopedul Lazarus Chakwera has said job creation, one among major priorities the alliance will embark on within a year once ushered into power in the forthcoming 23rd June, 2020 Fresh Presidential Election (FPE). Chakwera, who was addressing people during a whistle stop tour in Chitipa district, lamented on the stampede […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president, who is also the torchbearer for the nine political parties under the Tonse Alliance, Lazarus Chakwera using oratory skills honed on pulpit to plot an election victory on Wednesday took the campaign trail to the northern region border lakeshore district of Karonga to canvass votes for the fresh Presidential Polls […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has paid special tribute to Orton Chirwa, the country’s first attorney general after independence, as the founding father of the Malawi nation but died as a political prisoner during the MCP dictatorship. A British-trained lawyer, Orton Chirwa and his wife, Vera, had been jailed since their abduction from exile […]
Opposition under Tonse Alliance have ganged up to demand that the issue of the fresh presidential election date be tabled when parliament meets Monday afternoon. Member of Parliament (MP) for Dowa East Richard Chimwendo Banda and half a dozen other Malawi Congress Party (MCP) said this when they addressed a rally in Sunday in Dowa. “We want […]
Tonse Alliance torchbearer in the forthcoming fresh Lazarus Chakwera, who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader, has said he is ready to usher in the change Malawi needs among others to genuinely fight corruption, end nepotism and impunity – which he accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government of perpetuating the vices. Chakwera […]
We need a change in politics to place Malawi on the right path. First, however, we have to re-establish trust in the political system, which only a free and fair election can do. Malawi’s 2019 election was declared a fraud by the highest court in the land in February this year. The judges said there […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament for Kasungu Central Ken Kandodo was on Friday caught on camera falling asleep during President Peter Mutharika State of the Nation address (Sona) in Parliament via video link. And this was not just a quick shutting of the eyes, Kandodo, who is also parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) […]
Tonse Alliance presidential ticket pair of torchbearer Lazarus Chakwera and his running mate Saulos Chilima on Wednesday held a meeting with top brass of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Party to cement their partnership with a deal of power-sharing Cabinet if they form the next government after the June 23 fresh presidential elections, Nyasa Times […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima is in Mangochi holding whistle-stop meetings as the battle for the eastern region’s votes intensifies ahead of the fresh presidential elections scheduled for June 23. Chilima is touting Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera, his electoral partner in Tonse Alliance, as the ticket to a better Malawi where people will live […]
Firebrand politician Kamlepo Kalua, who was fearless and combative in denouncing the fierce and dictator Kamuzu Banda, in the early 90s, when winds of democracy stirred up the shores, has warned Malawians that Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has the desire for Malawi to slide back into one party state again under Tonse Alliance. Kalua, who […]