Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has downplayed defections by Mzuzu City Council Deputy Mayor Alexander Mwakikunga , councillor for Chibavi Ward Gabriel Mwaungulu and some of its key politicians to newly –formed United Transformation Movement (UTM). MCP spokesman Reverend Maurice Munthali said those moving to the now popular movement are “simply jumping the gun”. He said […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) vice president Alhadji Muhammad Sidik Mia was on a whistle stop tour in the lakeshore districts of Salima and Nkhotakota when he has boosted the support of the party encouraging eligible voters to register in large numbers so that they can vote for the party in next year’s elections. Mia’s meetings […]
Ntcheu West legislator Reverend Mwai Kamuyambeni has described both the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Transformation Movement (UTM) officials as snakes, saying they have criminal activities to answer to Malawians. “These propagating as if they are innocent, as if they are angels but they have worst records of crimes in this country. Don’t listen […]
Vocal Salima North West legislator, Jessie Kabwila, has buried a hatchet with Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leadership and has since embraced the party’s president, Lazarus Chakwera, as bonafide leader. This follows outbursts which Kabwira has been making in the media where she has been failing to recognize the new National Executive Committee (NEC) describing it […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) said they strongly believe Vice-President Saulos Chilima has an intimate knowledge of rigging machinations for the country’s watershed polls and that he should give more details regarding how Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is planning to rig and how it manipulated the results of 2014 election for President Peter Mutharika and […]
Members of Parliament (MPs) of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) on Sunday took turns to bemoan the rising levels of corruption under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government, saying the only way to remove it is through registering to vote and casting the ballot in next year’s Tripartite elections. The MPs were addressing a […]
It’s time to connect with people on the ground’ appears to be the working motto for the Mia family in as far as preparations for the 2019 watershed elections are concerned as Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Vice President Sidik Mia traveled to Lunzu to interact the party’s district governors—his wife Abida Mia was interacting with […]
Ethiopia-based Malawian journalist and political commentator, Idriss Ali Nasser, has—through social media platform Facebook—opined that a lot of factors can actually work to the advantage of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) 2019 tripartite elections torchbearer, Lazarus Chakwera, to make it as president of the country. Nasser, a fine writer too, said there was something new in […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Vice President Sidik Mia on Wednesday met the party’s district officials in Vera Chelewani’s Blantyre North West Constituency for ‘a one-two, one-two testing-testing meetings,’ gauging the preparedness of the leaders, ahead of the 2019 watershed elections. The party officials were drawn from the main body of the party, the women wing as well […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has said it will not allow political parties to replace—after the end of nomination period—candidates that the poll body may reject, saying parties should ensure they present candidates that are eligible to contest according to the law. The commission’s chairperson Justice Jane Ansah said at a National Election Consultative Forum […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) should focus on solving the myriad of problems facing Malawians rather that castigate its leader Lazarus Chakwera or the party. MCP spokesperson Reverend Maurice Munthali said this in reaction to DPP top gurus who have bene jusing presidential podium to castigate MCP […]
At least 65 former Malawi Congress Party central region committee have defected to vice president Saulos Chilima’s United Transformation Movement (UTM). Speaking during the formal defection ceremony on Tuesday, one of the former officials , Chatonda Kaunda who served as MCP deputy secretary general said the group decided to join the movement because the MCP […]
Barely two days after she interacted with University of Malawi’s Polytechnic Students right on their own campus, strategizing with them and giving them party materials ahead of the watershed 2019 elections, self-styled liberation activist Abida Mia, wife to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Vice President Sidik Mia is meeting ‘Red Rose’ party youths in Blantyre on […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said it has a strong belief that its many strengths including the ownership of office structures across the country have helped the party reach to its current “great status.” The party’s campaign director, Moses Kunkuyu, said the continued existence of the party structures attests to the strength of […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesman Nicholas Dausi has backed party leaders in the north for saying that opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) will not penetrate the region because people have not forgotten the atrocities they suffered during its one-party rule is true because he is a former MCP top officials and knows its […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) top officials on Friday went to town, telling leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera and his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) that they would never get back into government. DPP secretary general Grazider Jeffrey said Malawians in the northern region and the whole country have not yet forgotten the atrocities the main […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) vice president, Muhammad Sidik Mia, has described the administration led by President Peter Mutharika as “worse” than eve, saying they will turn tables around when the MCP gets mandate to govern after next year’s May tripartite elections. Mia, a renowned business magnate and politician, said he was sure MCP […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera is panicking as potential voters in the party’s stronghold Central Region have shunned him by refusing to register in the first phase of the voter registration exercise ahead of next year’s tripartite elections. People in Kasungu, Dedza and Salima where the first phase of the registration took place […]