Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has said his party will bring back to Parliament the Electoral Reform Bills which include the Constitutional (Amendment) that a president should be elected with more than 50 percent of the votes, replacing the first-past-the-post (FPTP). Chakwera said he will bring back Electoral Reform Bills once elected as […]
A grouping of over 200 young pastors on Good Friday endorsed Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Reverend Dr Lazarus Chakwera as the most befitting candidate for the office of the President of the Republic of Malawi ahead of the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Speaking at a news conference in the city of Mzuzu, […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarus Chakwera has said if voted into power during May 21 elections, MCP will encourage and support government policies that would benefit all Malawians regardless of region, tribe or religion. Chakwera, speaking at Kalumo in Ntchisi on Saturday during the political campaign rally, said Malawi needs to return to the […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika says his government is committed to bring more development projects across the country if voted back into power in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Mutharika was speaking Saturday in Lilongwe, widely regarded as a stronghold for opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) during a whistle-stop tour at Chingondo Primary School Ground […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested five people believed to be Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporters who are suspected to have thrown stones at a presidential convoy and smashed two government vehicles and another which belongs to ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The incident happened in two different areas within a space of two weeks. […]
Tempers flared up during a parliamentary debate in Chikwawa south as the debate ended prematurely because of political rivalry between Malawi Congress Party (MCP) candidate Elias Karim and ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) aspirant Gerald Viola. The two parliamentary candidates nearly exchanged blows, heightening tension in the already volatile situation, stalking tension between supporters of […]
The vice president of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) who is also the party’s running mate, Mohammed Sidik Mia, is pushing the horizons of MCP dominance beyond the closest imaginations of their disillusioned opponents in the influential lakeshore district of Mangochi. The political crowd pulle, who is also a vibrant business magnat, Thursday […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera has said he would attend presidential question time in parliament once voted into power during the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. He said this Wednesday evening during a grueling whistle-stop campaign tours in Lilongwe. President Peter Mutharika has always snubbed the questions to the president session when […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first deputy president Sidik Mia is crisscrossing all the constituencies of the populous lake shore district of Mangochi throughout this Easter season on the campaign trail to hunt votes for the party in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Mia has so far visited Mangochi South, Mangochi Masongola, Mangochi Nkungulu and Mangochi Chilipa […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has accused the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) of perpetrating political violence after President Peter Mutharika’s convoy was stoned in Mchinji. MCP supporters threw stones at President Mutharika’s motorcade on two separate occasions, DPP spokesperson Nicholous Dausi, who is also Minister of Homeland Security, has claimed. Dausi accused criminal behaviour […]
President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday took his votes hunt for his re-election bid to stronghold of opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in central region tobacco growing district of Kasungu, asking voters to give his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a fresh mandate to govern through their ballots on May 21 Tripartite Elections, promising to rehabilitate the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera has trashed the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) manifesto saying it is not plausible as a leader who presents it. Speaking during a political rally he held at Nkhotakota L E A School on Sunday, Chakwera blamed the DPP as the root cause of the current challenges […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) deputy president and presidential running mate in the May 21 2019 watershed election, Mohammed Sidik Mia, said his party is certain in taking over the reins of power through the ballot and usher in new era of opportunities for all not a selected few. Mia was speaking at Migowi primary school […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Dowa East Constituency parliamentary candidate, Ben Lazaro Chimsewu, has described under development of Dowa East Constituency as ‘pathetic’ and ‘great injustice’ to the electorate. Speaking ahead of his manifesto launch, slated for this Sunday at Gogo Primary School at Mvera, Chimsewu said he is driven by other politicians’ self-centeredness […]
Uncontrollable supporters of the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporters in Nsanje South Constituency led to postponement of National Iniitiative for Civic Eeducation (NICE) Trust organised debate on Tuesday at Mpasa Community Day Secondary School as there was disorder as two rival parties clashed physically. , after supporters from the two camps […]
The first cohort of youths that have undergone free skills training programme in tailoring, cookery and driving in Chikwawa-Mkombedzi Constituency has been awarded certificates upon successful completion. The students were presented their certificates during a grand ceremony that took place in Ngabu on Sunday on 7, April, 2019. Abida Sidik Mia, who is the Malawi […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Deputy President who is also presidential running mate in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections, Sidik Mia, said his party will move to deal with urban poverty by protecting workers from exploitation. Mia was speaking yesterday at Naotcha ground, Chilobwe Township in commercial city of Blantyre. This area is in Blantyre […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president, Lazarus Chakwera, has claimed that the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been involved in the looting of public funds for the last five years amounting to K1 trillion. Chakwera said this in Mzuzu at a political campaign rally televised on privately-owned television station —Times. The presidential hopeful of the triple […]