People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) – one of the parties expected to field a presidential candidate in the next year’s tripartite elections – says the year 2013 has been one of the worst in the history of Malawian modern politics and has since urged Malawians not to vote into government all those parties that have ever […]
As an unofficial campaign for the 2014 tripartite elections gets hotter by day with both reasonable and unreasonable promises from leaders of various political parties and the opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) is promising Malawians the introduction of new and cheapest form of fertilizers once voted into power. PPM president, Mark Katsonga Phiri says the […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) says once voted into power in next year’s Tripartite Elections, it will breakdown the responsibilities of the country’s sole power provider Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) in order to have efficient service delivery of the company. PPM party president Mark Katsonga said the country is experiencing unreliable service from the […]
National Salvation Front (NASAF) has described Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsionga as an empty headed presidential candidate who dreams to run government in 2014 without original ideas and instead is busy stealing such from other candidates. NASAF secretary general Lester Chikoya fumed at Katsonga in an interview with Nyasa Times that the PPM leader does not deserve […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PP) President Mark Katsonga has promised to reform the Agriculture Development and Market Corporation (Admarc) to become a cooperative owned by farmers should they win next year’s polls. This, according to PPM President Mark Katsonga, will help farmers benefit from their agricultural income generating activities. Katsonga, who spoke during the whistle-stop tour […]
Opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga on Saturday drew a poor patronage in Malawi’s considered political barometer Ndirande squatter township in commercial capital Blantyre where he called for the ouster of the governing People’s Party (PP) in elections due next May. Katsonga riding in an open roof bus conducted a whistle-stop tour of […]
Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president, Mark Katsonga has hired renowned secular musician, Joseph Mkasa to drum up his political support with songs and discredit President Joyce Banda at a K7 million price-tag, Nyasa Times can reveal. Mkasa has since released three singles, urging the country to nominate a business-minded president in form of Katsonga during […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president, Mark Katsonga said Malawians have themselves to blame following revelations that the country’s maize silos are almost depleted and that drug shortage is currently at 80 percent. Katsonga said the failure by the country to get rid of the “recycled politicians” who have been serving the nation since multiparty inception, […]
Malawi opposition Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) has disclosed that the party’s convention will be held in July this year in readiness for the tripartite polls next year. PPM Secretary General Wellington Chatepa said election of their presidential candidate ahead of the polls is topping the agenda at the meeting. “PPM convention will be held in […]
As Malawi is gearing up for next year’s tripartite elections, many things are emerging within political parties with some losing their senior members as others are gaining. The latest was witnessed last Sunday at Ngazi Primary School Ground in Mzimba where the ruling Peoples Party (PP) lost its Deputy District Governor, Julius Malinda Ndhlovu, who has […]
Malawi’s opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga has called for an immediate resignation of President Joyce Banda and her administration to make way for early elections. Katsonga told a news conference in Blantyre on Friday that President Banda could not go up to next year’s polls at the rate she was going, saying she should […]
People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga has called for the opposition to provide strong checks and balances to President Joyce Banda’s Peoples Party (PP) governance of the country. He was speaking at Nselema primary school in Machinga when he welcomed about 200 people in who have joined PPM after dumping the ruling PP. Katsonga […]
Malawi’s opposition political party Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) has threatened to mobilise its members to prop up the January 17 nationwide protests if government does not listen to its request. The party observes while mass protest is a constitutional right of people, it does not believe the planned demos will bring any solution to the […]
Opposition Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga has advised government to take a step further on the fertilizer subsidy programme which is facing continued irregularities from politicians and officials alike. Corruption, delayed distribution, coupons ending up in wrong hands and being sold at exorbitant prices are some of the issues covered in the party’s […]
In a fired political mood, President Joyce Banda on Tuesday predicted that many circumstantial opposition alliances will arise ahead of the 2014 national elections because individual political parties will have lost many executive members to the governing People’s Party (PP). The President was speaking on Tuesday when he addressed thousands of PP enthusiasts at Liwonde […]
As people’s resentment grow stronger on how the Malawi’s ruling People’s party is governing the country, some party members are suggesting to call it quit and join other political parties. The recent ones to move away are four party top officials in the northern part of Mzimba district who have joined the People’s Progress Movement (PPM) which […]
Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM) spokesman Redson Munlo says his party will concentrate in politics of inclusiveness in order to accommodate all Malawians when voted into power in 2014, saying it is against tendency of recycling politicians at the expense of the youth. Munlo said this on Wednesday in Blantyre when unveiling some of the PPM’s […]
The interim president of People’s Progressive Movement (PPM), Mark Katsonga Phiri has recently been vocal speaking against the tendency of other politicians who are changing their allegiance from one party to another at will particularly those in government. Katsonga Phiri has been telling Malawians that these people should not be taken seriously as they […]