Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and Peoples Party (PP) have authorized the OPEC Fund for International Development Nkhatabay Town Water Supply and Sanitation Project Loan Bill. The Bill number 25 of 2018 Opec Fun for International Development (Ofid) was read for the first time by Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Goodall Gondwe on Tuesday […]
Former governing People’s Party (PP) will on Sunday, November 25, 2018, celebrate 8 years of existence with pomp and fun at Chief Malili’s Headquarters in the Lilongwe. PP founder and president of the party, Joyce Banda will lead the celebrations . She will be joined by national executive committee (NEC) members, invited members of other […]
Firstly, this article is not meant to discourage or encourage any political party anywhere to go into, or withdraw from any political formation, alliance, party or grouping, rather, it seeks to contribute to the thought process on political formations in general. The article is academic in nature, and some of the principles are vicarious knowledge […]
Senior officials in both Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and People’s Party (PP) have rejected the proposal by their leaders for their parties to enter into electoral partnership with the new kid on the block, UTM. Both groups of officials fear UTM leader Saulos Chilima wants to use the two parties to ascend to the top […]
The main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera is courting the UTM party led by Vice-president Saulos Chilima and the People’s Party (PP) of former president Joyce Banda to discuss a possible electoral alliance to fight May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections against President Peter Mutharika and his governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its […]
Public opinion survey conducted by Malawi’s Institute of Public Opinion Research (IPOR) indicates the Malawi May 21 2019 elections remains too close to call as the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is the biggest loser in the current political climate with the coming of new party UTM led by Vice President Saulos Chilima as the ruling […]
Opposition Peoples Party (PP) leader in parliament Ralph Mhone says the missing crucial Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) biometric voter registration kit should be debated in the forthcoming November 19 last seating of parliament. “We would like to find out how this missing biometric kit is affecting preparations for the elections, this is an important issue […]
Former president and People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda has promised that should she be ushered back in power through next year’s elections, her party would take bold steps to improve the agriculture-economy. Banda said this on Sunday at Masangano school ground in the area of Traditional Authority, T/A, Kalumo in Ntchisi, where she addressed a political […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has downplayed claims by People’s Party (PP) that despite suggestions that former president Joyce Banda’s anti-corruption record was poor the ruling party has approached Banda’s party for possible electoral alliance. PP secretary general Ibrahim Matola said DPP, Malawi Congress party (MCP) and United Transformation Movement (UTM) approached the former ruling […]
Since her return from self-imposed exile and re-election as leader of former governing People’s Party (PP), immediate past president Joyce Banda has intesfied political meetings as the nation is approaching the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections as she plots her return to power with belief that the country was better place before the current administration, […]
Immediate past president and leader of People’s Party (PP) Joyce Banda has vowed that she want to give the country’s top job another shot by contesting in the May 21 2019 elections, saying she has solutions to the unemployment and power outages Malawi is facing under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration. Banda has promised […]
Malawi’s immediate past former president Joyce Banda, who is People’s Party (PP) torchbearer in next year’s elections has intesfied her engagement with the electorate, travelling the breadth and width of the country addressing rallies and has accusing the current Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration of being “woefully” out of touch with economic reality for people […]
The former governing People’s Party (PP) says it will not spare any constituency and ward during its primary elections scheduled to start mid next month. PP spokesman Ackson Kalaile Banda said the party is set to hold parliamentary and local government primary elections as part of its prepatiosn for the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. […]
People’s Party (PP) national organising secretary Yusuf Billiat Matumula and former minister Chikumbutso Hiwa have withdrawn their membership from the Joyce Banda led party and on Saturday joined the United Transformation Party (UTM). The two were unveiled at a political rally State Vice-President Saulos Chilima who is also UTM leader held at Nyambadwe Primary School ground in […]
People’s Party (PP) has said the Yusuf Billiat Matumula is the party’s national organising secretary after being appointed by its leader Joyce Banda after the party politiburo recommended. PP spokesman Ackson Kalaile Banda clarified to Nyasa Times after an earlier report which indicated that Banda has snubbed Matumula and Rumphi East legislator Kamlepo Kalua in […]
People’s Party (PP) leader Joyce Banda has ignored Rumphi East legislator Kamlepo Kalua and former party treasurer general Yusuf Matumula in the appointments she has made to complete a full list of party National Executive Committee (NEC). Kalua was the party’s Vice President (North) but did not compete for the post during the convention last month, […]
Former president Joyce Banda, 68, has said Malawians are tired of being trapped in abject poverty and that the only way is to bring about transformational leadership that will improve their lives beyond May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. Banda, who was given the nod by her People’s Party (PP) members during last month national convention to be […]
Vice President Saulos Chilima and immediate past president Joyce Banda held talks on Saturday in Zomba amid fevered speculation of a possible electoral relationship between United Transformation Movement (UTM) and People’s Party (PP). Chilima’s spokesman Pililani Phiri confirmed that the vice president met Banda at her home in Domasi. But the spokesman described the two […]