Leader of opposition and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate in May 21 2019 elections, Lazarus Chakwera, has promised a radical socio-economic transformation if elected to be the country’s president. Chakwera said in an exclusive interview on Times TV broadcast on Saturday which was anchored by maverick host Brian Banda. He said MCP has plans […]
Leader of opposition in parliament and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has won the party primary elections in Lilongwe north west constituency. Chakwera got 1187 votes against Bryson Majoni’s 50 votes. This means Chakwera will now be the party torch bearer in the 2019 parliamentary election. Some officials in the MCP said […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera is battling out in his first ever party primary polls in Lilongwe north west. A number of aspirants have sprung up in the constituency to challenge Chakwera, a sitting member of parliament, bringing fears in the MCP as to what would happen should he lose the […]
Immediate past president Joyce Banda has called upon President Peter Mutharika, Vice-president Saulos Chilima and opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera to bury their political hatchets and come together to deal with public health crisis. Banda, who leads the People’s Party (PP). Said her heart bleeds with reports of poor drug supply to public hospitals and that […]
The leader of opposition in Parliament and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has commended the role the influential Catholic Church plays in development in the country. Chakwera said this after he attended the inauguration of St Mary’s Catholic Parish at Kasitu in Nkhotakota on Saturday He said: “What we have noticed, particularly the Catholic […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has come the first MCP president to visit Thambani memorial pillar in Mwanza where three powerful and influential Cabinet ministers were murdered in 1983 for being critical of founding president Ngwazi Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda. The four cabinet ministers; Aaron Sangala, Dick Matenje, Twaibu Sangala and member of […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has said his party is ready to take Malawians to another level because it has in the pipeline a national development plan which can be ascribed to by everyone. Chakwera said this during a whistle-stop tour MCP had on Tuesday in Mwanza district at Mwanza Turn-off, Chimulangi Trading Centre, […]
The setting was Mkaika-Katete in Zambia and the ceremony was Kulamba ceremony which was commemorated over the weekend where the Chewa people from Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi go to their King, Kalonga Gawa Undi to pay homage. This cultural festival of the Chewa was a very big event like it has never be seen before. […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera on Friday told the party youth they need to stop being political bystanders and be actively involved in the country’s decision-making process, saying they should “step up” and register to vote to prevent being “held back” by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Chakwera said the youths forms the integral […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera has maintained his charge that misrule under the Peter Mutharika administration and failure to provide basic necessities to citizens has left all the country’s institutions broken and Malawians without hope, therefore Malawi is a failed State. Chakwera, who is also leader of Opposition in Parliament, blamed Mutharika’s administration […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera and some of the party’s senior members on Friday were shocked when they were not given a chance to speak at the funeral of the brother of its former vice President Richard Msowoya who is also the Speaker of Parliament despite other parties given a slot […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and leader of opposition in Parliament, Lazarus Chakwera, has hailed the re-election of councillor John James Kawinga as Chairman of the Lilongwe District Council describing him as a visionary. Chakwera, who is also torch bearer of MCP in the 2019 tripartite elections disclosed that the council has made commendable progress […]
Leader of opposition in parliament Lazarus Chakwera says the 68 per cent electricity tariff hike is to pay for inefficiencies at the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and asked the government to halt it. Chakwera, who is also the president of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says the tariff hike would harm ordinary Malawians than […]
Leader of opposition and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate for May 2019 Tripartite Election, Lazarus Chakwera plans to launch his political mission to win the race to State House by inviting Malawians to an engagement to come up with his party’s pact with the electorate. Chakwera said the engagement will culminate in conversations, dialogue and […]
Main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera on Thursday took time off to go on whistle stop tour in Lilongwe to urge people to go and register for the forthcoming elections. Chakwera told the people that they can kick out the corrupt ad thieving government of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) only if […]
In phone-in programme on Times Radio presented by Brian Banda, a certain Mr Chipwete who gave his address as “at the barbershop, Thunga, Thyolo” had interesting things to say. Don’t shoot the messenger. Various parties can see what they take away from this and retool their messages accordingly. MR CHIPWETE: Let’s just give the keys […]
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) 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 […]