People’s Party (PP) of former president Joyce Banda will be reduced to spectators in the 2019 elections because it has no direction like a headless chicken, two members of Parliament (MPs) for the party have said. Welani Chilenga of Chitipa South, who has been a vibrant voice of PP in Parliament, and former Chief Whip […]
Mangochi Monkey Bay legislator Ralph Jooma (People’s Party—PP) has struck a defiant tone that he remains vice-president for the Eastern Region despite being fired by the party. Jooma was removed from his position by PP national executive committee (NEC) meeting on January 8 this year for working with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). PP has also […]
The opposition Peoples Party (PP) has written the Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya requesting him to remove one of its Parliamentarians, Ralph Jooma from the Parliamentary Service Commission (PMC) and to invoke section 65 on two of its law makers who are deemed to have changed parties. Jooma resigned as party’s Chief Whip last year and […]
Opposition People’s Party (PP) legislator for Zomba Changalume legislator John Chikalimba will take on the role of parliamentary enforcer for the party after being appointed chief whip. Chikalimba has been named as chief whip after Ralph Jooma, who previously held the post, resigned and is reportedly now aligned with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The […]
For the next couple of weeks, I invoke a discussion on why the political party model for our governance and political leadership is the cause of the problems of corruption and the failure of economic development in the country. Political parties promote patronage. Once a political party wins an election, it is time for its […]
The People’s Party (PP) has said it will request in writing, the National Assembly speaker Richard Msowoya, to invoke Section 65-on crossing the floor – and declare rebel members of Parliament (MPs) seats vacant. PP deputy publicity secretary Ackson Kalaile Banda said some MPs have been flirting with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and are […]
President Arthur Peter Mutharika who is also leader of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will hold a political rally in Blantyre on Sunday where he is expected to welcome into his party some political gurus who are recycling themselves to the governing party ahead of next year’s elections. According to a statement issued by Chief […]
Cecilia Kumpukwe, sister to former president and People’s Party founder Joyce Banda, and other People’s Party (PP), Ackson Kalaile Banda, Stella Assani and Yesaya Mkawala have been acquitted by the court . The State charged the PP officials with two counts of making a false document contrary to Section 353 of the Penal Code and publishing false […]
From inception, chances that People’s Party (PP) would stand the test of time looked slim. Founded by the de facto alternative during Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)’s 2009 to 2012 reign of bad laws and terror, PP quickly attracted motley opportunists. Sadly, rather than benefit from the demise of former President Bingu wa Mutharika, PP turned out […]
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.” —Hermann Hesse, German novelist, poet, and painter There is a popular political saying in Malawi’s politics that there are no permanent enemies or friends in politics. However, as […]
The former ruling party Peoples Party (PP) has hit the headlines recently, amidst the rumours of their flirting with the ruling DPP since the parliamentary vote on electoral reform bill, to the recent firing from the party of its interim leader Uladi Mussa. The party has also elected new position holders. Zomba Malosa MP, Roy […]
Mzimba Hora member of Parliament (MP) the Reverend Christopher Mzomera Ngwira has said he is ready to defend himself in the court after being sued by immediate past State president Joyce Banda who is demanding a return of a vehicle assigned to him when he was Northern Region governor of her People’s Party in 2013. Through her […]
Former governing People’s Party (PP) has cracked the whip on Chitipa South Constituency, legislator Welani Chilenga, who was among members of Parliament (MPs) who went against the party’s alleged stance to support the defeated Electoral Reforms Bills during the November meeting of Parliament. PP has since ‘punished’ Chilenga by removing him from Natural Resources and […]
Former president Joyce Banda’s son, Roy Kachale, has denied claims by People’s Party (PP) former acting president Uladi Mussa that there are plans to make him take over the party leadership. Kachale, the Zomba Malosa member of Parliament (MP), has risen rapidly within the party as he is now second in command as vice president (eastern […]
People’s Party (PP) former acting president Uladi Mussa has added his accusations on the party’s self-exiled president Joyce Banda, saying apart from plan to install his son Roy Kachale for the leadership of the party, the PP is being run as a family club. Mussa further accused Banda that it is her family that controls […]
Fired People’s Party (PP) member of Parliament (MP) Uladi Mussa, who was also the party’s vice-president responsible for the Central Region, has claimed that the party’s founder and president Joyce Banda wants to bequeath her office to her son Roy Kachale, who is Zomba Malosa MP. The firebrand politician said he has been fired alongside PP […]
People’s Party (PP) has rejected any move to have an electoral alliance with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and finally expelled Uladi Mussa from the party after it fired him from his position as vice-president responsible for the Central Region, for proclaiming that party president Joyce Banda’s term had expired. Mussa’s sacking follows an […]
“Your worst enemy could be your best friend and your best friend your worst enemy,” Bob Marley, Who the Cap fit Most. Just on last week’s subject of potential alliances, just how seriously should we take the rumour mill on some speculated potential 2019 election alliances currently flying around? ‘There is no smoke without fire’, […]