Aspirant Member of Parliament for Salima North West constituency on Malawi Congress Party (MCP) ticket, Enock Phale is suspected of conniving with some of his supporters to write a letter on Sunday calling for primary elections to be held on Monday. And the primaries did take place and declared him the winner, saying the other […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka has accused President Peter Mutharika’s administration of being evil and Satanic with excruciating poverty Malawians are facing and the many problems they are going through. Mkaka was speaking at an MCP rally addressed by the party’s vice president Sidik Mia at Mazengera Primary School groung in Lilongwe Mpenu […]
It’s been a long time since Malawi Congress Party (MCP) last tasted levers of power but we will not wait long to find out if the decision by MCP president Lazarus Chakwera, to name— early— his running mate for next May’s presidential elections, was a masterstroke. Or that giving the berth to politician-cum-businessperson, Sidik Mia, […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokesperson Maurice Munthali has accused the first ruling party in multiparty democracy after 1994 of introducing the culture of handouts, saying this has made Malawians lazy. But Munthali did not directly mention the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Bakili Muluzi who defeated the MCP and Kamuzu Banda at the 1994 first […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) veteran politician Vitus Dzoole Mwale has dragged his party to court for declaring Liana Kakhobwe Chapota winner in Lilongwe Msozi south constituency in Lilongwe. Dzoole Mwale has been member of parliament in the area for close to two decades. The veteran MP obtained a court injunction to stop the party from […]
Six Dowa chiefs have asked Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera to intervene in political differences being faced by MP aspirants in their district’s South East Constituency where MCP’s Njoka Chimpeni is the incumbent. At a press conference in Lilongwe on Tuesday, the chiefs, who declared to be speaking on behalf of fellow chiefs, […]
Abida Mia, accompanied by her husband Sidik Mia, who is Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Vice-president, had a very busy weekend through whistle-stop tours from one constituency to another in Chikwawa and Nsanje withsingle message of campaign that the party’s president Lazarus Chakwera is theone to give hope for good development to the people of the […]
Main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says parliamentary and local government candidates who failed party primaries can now stand as independents, rescinding its earlier decision. The party forced the candidates to sign a memorandum of understanding three months ago which compelled them not stand as independents once they failed during primary elections. But party […]
Malawi Congresss Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera says his administration will initiate that the powers of the State Presidentbe reduced once voted into power in next year’s elections. Speaking at Khuzi Primary School grounds in the area of Traditional Authority Kwataine in Ntcheu District during a political rally on Saturday , Chakwera said he will ensure […]
A picture of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) vice President Sidik Mia and running mate to the candidature of Lazarus Chakwera has gone viral on the social media when he visited Makhanga ‘Island’ in Nsanje North Constituency to address the people using a canoe transport. Makhanga is in Deputy Speaker Mcheka Chilenje’s constituency—which Mia, during a Mangochi […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) primary election losing candidate Patrick Bandawe has finally taken his party to court for its failure to declare him winner in last week’s polls. Bandawe said he is not satisfied with the outcome of the mediation talks he had with party officials. “The officials conceded in my face that I won […]
Malawian newspapers on Wednesday has been dominated with events during the funeral service of the departed Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe of the Tumbuka (Nkhamanga Kingdom) at Bolero in Rumphi with both dailies carrying extended coverage through editorial comments condemning the drama and a governance commentator has added his voice to the political posturing. “Shameful” was the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) top brass took turns in branding governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as a “kambelembele” [crooked] administration because lits eaders are busy enriching themselves through corrupt means and that the party carries abductions and killings. The outspoken National Youth Director for MCP Richard Chimwendo Banda, the political podium orator of the moment, was the […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) on Monday December 3 held a memorial service for its patriach and founding father of the Malawi nation, president Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda anf laud wreaths at his mausoleum, a walking distance from the party headquarters in Lilongwe. Those in attendance included party president and Leader of Opposition Lazarus Chakwera and […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first vice-president Mohammad Sidik Mia who has been picked as party resident Lazarus Chakwera’s running mate in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections presidential race, has assured him of an “easy entrance” to State House next year. Chakwera , who is also leader of opposition in Parliament, declared at a rally in Monkey […]
A group of disgruntled Malawi Congress Party (MCP) aspirants have ganged up to help each other during campaign in order to force party candidates fail during ithe May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Spokesperson for the grouping, Madalitso Kazombo, Kasungu east MP and central region director of campaign for the MCP said the grouping will campaign […]
Political analysts say Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera’s declaration of his party’s first vice-president Mohammad Sidik Mia as his running mate in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections presidential race.has slammed the door for an electoral alliance talks . Chakwera has become the first aspiring presidential candidate to declare Mia would be his […]
Main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has angrily reacted to the uprooting and subsequent burning of its party flags in Mangochi on Saturday by suspected ruling party cadets and have since demanded a thorough probe by Malawi Police. A clip posted in social media platforms shows young men clad in Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) […]