The historic elections petition case at the Constitutional Court in Lilongwe, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera on Monday completed his testimony on disputed presidential elections which he argues were marked by serious irregularities. After being cross-examined by first respondents President Peter Mutharika and Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) lawyers, Chakwera, who is a […]
President Peter Mutharika has defended his position to report the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera to the UN over the current political instability, saying the opposition should just wait for the 2024 elections to try their luck again. Mutharika said this on Saturday afternoon on arrival from the UN general assembly in the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokesperson on finance, Collins Kajawa, has proposed that government should review National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma) role of importing fuel in the country. Kajawa made the suggestion on Tuesday in his response to the 2019/2020 national budget which Finance Minister Joseph Mwanamvekha presented in Parliament. He said there should be […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has hit back at President Peter Mutharika for telling the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that the main opposition is the major political trouble maker in the country. MCP spokesperson Maurice Munthali said the remarks by Mutharika that the MCP is bringing confusion after losing the elections shows that the […]
Nkhata Bay South legislator Ken Zikhale Ng’oma (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) has implicated Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Kondwani Nankhumwa and deputy minister of defence Chipiliro Mpinganjira as architects of the violence which Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadets unleashed to thwart a planned Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) march in Blantyre on Wednesday. Zikhale […]
Dowa East MP Richard Chimwendo Banda (Malawi Congress Party – MCP) protested in the National Assembly that a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator has hurled repeated insults at interim leader of the opposition Lobin Lowe during his statement condemning DPP cadets involved in violence that thwarted a planned Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) march in […]
Malawian President Peter Mutharika on Thursday addressed the annual gathering of world leaders for the United Nations General Assembly and said he won his second and final constitutional five-year term of office through a process that was duly audited by a UN affiliated network but accused opposition leaders’ campaign to annul the May elections on […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) executive member Moses Kunkuyu has said the party will not support the appointment of Duncan Mwapasa as police chief and that Parliament should reject him. President Peter Mutharika in August named Mwapasa the interim Inspector General of Malawi Police Service to replace Rodney Jose, who has gone on holiday ahead of […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has branded the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as an “interim government” pending dispute in court relating presidential election results in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. The MCP legislators were calling DPP an interim government in parliament after interim leader of opposition Lobin Lowe raised concern of clashes between DPP youth […]
A senior opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) legislator wants to move parliament to demand from government a full report on the controversial sale of Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) to FDH Bank by demanding to know the whereabouts of K9 billion proceeds from the transaction and how the toxic assets were dealt with. Lilongwe Mpenu constituency […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) have accused government of the proposed one percent withholding tax on non-bank mobile money transactions which threatens the financial inclusion agenda as the cost of the service will likely rise. In his 2019/2020 national budget, presented recently to parliament, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Joseph […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) have given official response to the 2019/20 national budget statement in Parliament as UTM and People’s Party (PP) will not be making formal statements as parties owing to their diminutive number in the House according to Standing Order 190(1) (d). Presenting an official response on behalf […]
The only two parties who can give official response to the national budget statement in Parliament, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) have spoken in support of the Be Forward Wanderers and Nyasa Big Bullets stadium projects. President Peter Mutharika during the May 21 Tripartite Elections campaign promised to build stadia for […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera defended himself why he did not know some things in his petition case for the May 21 presidential elections , saying it is only God who knows everything. Chakwera, giving testimony under cross-examination, was pinned by ttorney General (AG) Kelekeni Kaphale, who is representing the Malawi Electoral Commission […]
Hearing of the historic presidential elections nullification petition case in Lilongwe has been adjourned to September 30 2019 after Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale on Friday completed his cross-examination on Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera, the second petitioner. Turning up for Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) in his capacity as government’s chief legal adviser, Kaphale in […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera, the second petitioner in the on-going presidential elections case took to witness stand to be cross examined by lawyers for the respondents and started by acknowledging that the 2019 election was his last chance as a presidential candidate for the MCP, according to the party […]
The Constitution Court hearing historic elections petition case in Lilongwe told opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera in the witness stand to be audible when testifying as court reporters were having problems to record his answers. Justice Healy Potani, chair of the five-judge panel, told Chakwera, who wants nullification of the May […]
Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale, told the Constitutional Court in Lilongwe that Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera, the second petitioner in the historic presidential elections nullification petition case, was being “overly protecting” him from the gruelling cross examination. Kaphale, in his capacity as government’s chief legal adviser, is representing Malawi Electoral Commission […]