President of a tiny political party Mbakuwako Movement for Democracy (MMD) Peter Kuwani has launched a blistering attack on Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM for rushing to courts over election results without consulting other parties. Kuwani said the main opposition MCP and UTM of immediate –past vice president Saulos Chilima, are not justified to […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has distanced itself from actions of party cadres who literally took over Capital Hill on Tuesday and forced civil servants out of their offices. The protesters’ march from MCP headquarters at City Centre to government’s seat was themed Mutharika Must Fall and meant to exert pressure on President Peter Mutharika, who […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera is facing strong condemnation after his supporters were organised and sponsored to disrupt government business at Capital Hill as they raided the seat of government on Tuesday to protest against alleged fraud in elections last month that returned Peter Mutharika as president. Chakwera is on record to […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM have welcomed the consolidation of their separate May 21 Tripartite Election petition cases in which both parties are asking the High Court to order a re-run following poll results irregularities. MCP spokesperson Maurice Munthali said the party legal team will now work together with the UTM lawyers to […]
A political analyst was warned the main opposition, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) of losing political focus as it continues to organize protests against the outcome of the May 21 presidential polls. George Phiri of University of Livingstonia has said the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has moved on swiftly to reach out to independent members […]
Lilongwe High Court Judge Charles Mkandawire has ruled that presidential elections-related cases filed separately by UTM Party and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) be consolidated and heard as one and should be referred to the Constitutional Court. MCP, which alongside UTM Party led by the country’s immediate past vice-president Saulos Chilima, is challenging results of the […]
Capital Hill, the seat of government in Lilongwe was under siege on Tuesday as scores of opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and its alliance partners vowed to choke government operations. Disgruntled MCP supporters staged another demonstration to express their anger with the outcome of the just-ended May 21 elections. The demonstrations came after another peaceful march […]
Former President Joyce Band’s Peoples Party (PP) say it will work with Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in post-election politics both inside and outside parliament. Spokesperson for PP Ackson Kalaile Banda said this on Sunday during a caucus where also the party did a postmortem on the election. “We are still in the alliance with MCP. […]
South Africa-based Malawian businessperson Ashanti Simbi Phiri, who is facing claims that he has been one of the key donors for the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) for their elections bid in the May 21 Tripartite Elections to the tune of K700 million, has had his public relations office in damage control, playing down that Simbi […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporters in the northern border district of Karonga have been denied their democratic right to peacefully march over the just released May 21 Presidential elections’ results. On May 28, the MCP district chairperson James Nkhoma wrote the District Commissioner Emmanuel Bulukutu to ask for permission for the party supporters to […]
An irate mob has damaged a head teachers house and smashed his vehicle at Kabudula in Lilongwe after accusing him of helping a ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) win an election. This happened when Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president was calling for calm after days of violence in the cenral region following the declaration by […]
Malawi’s opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera has condemned the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials for being a crime enterprise which they are bound together to create a virtual “mafia state”. Chakwera said this on Friday at a news conference when he officially rejected the result of last week’s presidential election, saying he had launched a […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) official Charles Burton says the party’s supporters will now take to the streets to demonstrate against what the MCP says is electoral fraud. The Salima-based politician said on Friday that MCP will not stop people from exercising their constitutional right to protest against the alleged electoral fraud. He said “brace for […]
South Africa-based Malawian businessperson Ashanti Simbi Phiri financially supported the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) for their elections bid in the May 21 Tripartite Elections to the tune of K700 million, Nyasa Times understands. Simbi, who runs a construction and engineering firm Khato Holdings Limited, emerged as one of the top financiers of MCP according […]
The jockeying to become the next Speaker of Parliament has started in earnest with one name that is quickly emerging as the frontliner to be fielded byMalawi Congress Party (MCP) is Member of Parliament for Nkhatabay South Ken Zikhale Ng’oma. The National Assembly leadership race will not be decided until after the new legislators’ oath […]
In denial of their defeat in the elections last week, main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is lobbying new UTM Party of former vice president Saulos Chilima to be party to the inauguration of MCP leader Lazarus Chakwera as the ‘people’s president’ and jointly incite more anarchy which should lead to the forced removal of […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM are expected to call for separate national executive committee meetings to review how the May 21 highly contentious tripartite elections went on. UTM spokesperson Joseph Chidanti Malunga said the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has not addressed all the grievances the party gave the pollster. “The party executive […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has for the first time talked of his presidential poll loss, blaming the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for the flawed election results. Speaking to the BBC on Focus on Africa on Wednesday, Chakwera said the poll result management was a mess. “I blame the electoral systems put by […]