Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has disclosed that his second-in-command Mohammed Sidik Mia will be his running mate in the May 21 2019 presidential elections and that the two have the ability to wrestle power from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Chakwera disclosed this at Mtakataka ground in Mangochi on Sunday after addressing a […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has taken Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) to task for failing to provide descent houses to Malawians. The party Campaign Director Moses Kunkuyu said people living in MHC houses are the most tortured Tenants in the country. He said Malawians living in MHC houses deserve to be shown a human face now. […]
Dowa east Malawi Congress Party (MCP) primary poll loser Patrick Bandadwe on Friday stormed the party headquarters in Lilongwe with a bus full of his supporters and demanding to see the director of Elections Moses Kunkuyu. Kunkuyu however could not meet Bandawe because he had accompanied party president Lazarus Chakwera to meet pollster, the Malawi […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has given in to president Peter Mutharika to hold his whistle stop tours this afternoob in Mangochi while Lazarus Chakwera has rescheduled his to Sunday. MCP publicist Maurice Munthali said the rescheduling of the whistle stop tours and a rally in Mangochi to tomorrow follows a meeting the Leader […]
Main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says it will go ahead with its planned whistle stop tours and a rally in Mangochi on Saturday although the District Commissioner has advised the party to put it on hold. The District Commissioner wrote the party on Thursday to put the whistle stop tours and the rally […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe surprised and shocked child rights activists in the country when he disapproved a private members bill which seeks to set up a National Children’s Commission to step up the protection of children in the country. The bill was moved by Lilongwe central MP Robin Lowe of main opposition Malawi […]
Main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has torn apart the government presented Corrupt Practices Bill, saying it still gives powers to the President to appoint the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) among others. MCP spokesperson on Legal Affairs in parliament Maxwell Thyolera told the National Assembly that the government has just devised a […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has declared it is a national priority to overthrow, through the ballot, the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and has told President Peter Mutharika to “start packing”, showing confidence that he would be able to defeat the incumbent in the May 21 2019 presidential elections. “Well, start packing. […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has told Dedza east primary poll loser Patrick Bandawe to drop his decision to challenge the matter in court and go for talks with the party but the politician is said to put his foot down as he is playing ball with other opposition parties. Bandawe on Monday threatened to […]
Patrick Bandawe, who was declared winner of the Dedza East Malawi Congress Party (MCP) primary elections before the party reversed the decision and declared Juliana Lunguzi winner has threatened the party with a lawsuit if it does not adequately explain the reason for its decision. The country’s oldest political grouping on Sunday conducted primary elections […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera who has set his hopes on becoming the country’s next President has unveiled a five-point plan to kick-start Malawi’s stalled development. Addressing a news conference on Sunday at his Namiwawa Residence in Blantyre after his rally at Zingangwa Secondary School ground was earlier disrupted by heavy downpour, Chakwera […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP)has declared Dedza East member of Parliament (MP) Juliana Lunguzi as winner of the primary elections and will represent the party in the parliamentary race in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. After a close contest at Mankhama Primary School on Sunday, presiding officer Peter Chalera declared Patrick Bandawe winner with […]
The outspoken National Youth Director for the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Richard Chimwendo Banda says the youth in the country are okay with party vice President Sidik Mia as torchbearer Lazarus Chakwera’s running mate in next year’s watershed election. Chimwendo spoke during a rally MCP organized at ZingangwaSecondary School ground in Blantyre city which […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) officials, who spoke before the rally at Zingwagwa Secondary School ground in Blantyre on Sunday was disrupted by rains, went to town, hitting at the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government for being clueless and abusive. MCP director of youth and political podium orator of the moment, Richard Chimwendo Banda, accused […]
Dedza East member of Parliament (MP) Juliana Lunguzi has lost primary elections narrowly to Patrick Bandawe who will now represent the party in the parliamentary race in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. After a close contest at Mankhama Primary School on Sunday, presiding officier Peter Chalera declared Bandawe winner with 821 votes against Lunguzi’s […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera has said Malawians have a rare and real opportunity on May 21 2019 to disabuse themselves of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led government which balmed for the socio-economic woes facing the country. Chakwera, speaking during Tambala Night fundraising event hosted by the party in Blantyre on Friday, said […]
The recent pump fuel price increases by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government are new system by the ruling party to raise campaign money for May 21 2019 Tripartite Election campaign, an opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) legislator has said in Parliament. Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has hiked fuel prices three times this year; […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Vice President Sidik Mia has denies as report by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) stringer’s report that he endorsed Member of Parliament (MP) Dr Jessie Kabwira as the party’s candidate for Salima North West Constituency in the forthcoming tripartite elections. According to MEC Stringer in Salima, while introducing Kabwira as the party’s […]