After supporters of opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) asked former minister Sidik Mia to join the party, a lot of pary leaders in in the Lower Shire districts of Nsanje and Chikwawa are defecting to MCP citing leadership failures in their respective parties. The supporters says they are joing MCP also to give solidarity to […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has ruled that some disgruntled Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members calling for an early convention in protest of party president Lazarus Chakwera’s style of leadership no longer have sufficient interest in the matter having been replaced in their positions as chairperson during party election, dismissing the case with costs. Some […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) officials in southern region and women clad in party attire accorded former cabinet minister Sidik Mia a red carpet welcome at a constituency function in Chikhwawa and voiceferously pleaded with him to join the party. This proved speculation that the former Democratic Progressive Party treasurer general was set to joining the […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP)spokesperson Jessie Kabwila and another senior party member Joseph Njobvuyalema are yet to appear before the party disciplinary committee, months after they were suspended. Both Kabwila and Njobvuyalema were suspended by party president Lazarus Chakwera on allegations that they hired people to torch the party headquarters in Lilongwe. Deputy secretary general […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has vowed to coninue firing and suspending party officals in a move he said would bring sanity in the main opposition. Chakwera said this Sunday afternoon when he addressed a campaign rally in Mchinji West. “The aim is to bring sanity as I am rebuilding the party to […]
Any constitutional democracy cannot stand a test of time if none of the structures that must guard against the almost omnipresent tendency of the executive to amass more power works to satisfaction. Thus any constructive talk about the Malawi Congress Party (MCP)must be viewed in that context as an endeavour to strengthen the checks and […]
Officials from Young Politicians Union have expressed concern that the ongoing political squabbles in the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) are scaring and putting off potential young politicians in the country. Young Politicians Union (YPU) official Clement Makuwa has since asked MCP president Lazarus Chakwera to put his house in order so that young people […]
As disagreements within the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) were going on, a representative of a media telephoned to seek my view. I told him I did not feel any urge to comment on what was essentially an internal party matter. One of the MCP members said something which I thought was a good hint not […]
The High Court on Tuesday granted two Malawi Congress Party (MCP)members Chatinkha Chidzanja-Nkhoma and Dennis Nanthumba injunction restraining the party from firing them. Chidzanja Nkhoma was fired by party president Lazarus Chakwera a few weeks ago over accusations of dissent and allegedly connected to the botched plot to burn down MCP headquarters. But she challenged […]
Two Malawi Congress Party (MCP) workers , a guard and a garden boy, at the party headquarters in the capital Lilongwe have been arrested in a morning swoop. The bodyguard, Joseph Undi and a garden boy named Harrison Nsalupa are in Police custody at an unknown location. Party deputy secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka confirmed the police […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Secretary General Gustave Kaliwo has received backing from the party’s leaders in the Southern and Eastern regions for his no holds barred letter to MCP president Lazarous Chakwera. Kaliwo in a nine-paged letter, dated September 13, 2016 addressed to Chakwera, challenged the MCP president for his leadership style which has been a […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera says he will summon party secretary general Gustave Kaliwo to explain the contents of his letter which he made to the public on Thursday. Chakwera said he wants Kaliwo to present his problems in person to the party national executive committee. “We might not tackle some of the […]
Malawi Police in Salima on Friday afternoon dispersed Malawi Congress Party (MCP)protesters in Salima north east who openly told party president Lazarus Chakwera to immediately cancel the suspension of Jessie Kabwila. The protesters said they wanted to deliver a petition to a constitutuency chairman over the suspension of their MP from the MCP. However, the […]
Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya in his capacity as vice president of opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has rubbished a letter written by the party’s Secretary General Gustave Kaliwo questioning the relationship between President Lazarous Chakwera and former minister Muhammed Sidik Mia as well as calling Chakwera a coward or victim of a hostage situation. […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarous Chakwera has responded to a hard hitting nine paged letter from his party’s secretary general Gustav Kaliwo in two pages, simple and cutting. In his reply, Chakwera started by noting that Kaliwo’s letter was “unheaded”. Chakwera said he read the contents of Kaliwo’s letter “with keen interest.” He wrote: […]
Former cabinet minister Sidik Mia has said reports that he is joining main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and is creating parallel structures are “incorrect.” Mia’s MCP connection is contained in the letter the party secretary general Gustav Kaliwo has written its leader Lazarous Chakwera. Kaliwo informs Chakwera that there are party officials that are […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has dismissed an interlocutory injuction filed by lawyer of some disgruntled Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members seeking the court to issue an order stopping all district election that the party is currently holding. MCP, the second biggest political party by representation in Parliament, has started conducting district elections to rebuild the […]
Secretary General of main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Gustav Kaliwo, has written a nine-paged letter to party president Lazarous Chakwera, challenging him to ensure he steadies the ship and rejuvenate MCP into a formidable government-in-waiting. The letter date September 13, 2016 has been leaked and Nyasa Times has a copy. Kaliwo, a practising prominent […]