A fortnight ago, a rank outsider, the Rev. Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, was overwhelmingly elected president of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP). This signalled the end of an era for one of Malawi’s longest-serving politicians, John Zenus Ungapake Tembo. The 81-year-old political gladiator, who has been in politics since 1961, has been at the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) seems to have attracted attention of many Malawians following the election of Dr Lazarus Chakwera as the party presidential candidate in the next year’s polls, Nthanda Congress Party (NCP) has disbanded and its entire executive has joined MCP. Initially, NCP believed to be a breakaway faction of MCP set aside August or early […]
The election of Lazarus Chakwera as Malawi Congress Party leader has been welcomed with handclapping and ululation from many quarters. Some analysts have described his election as a move which has changed the political landscape. I am not surprised that others are calling Chakwera as game changer. Few months ago, some had difficulties in identifying alternative leadership. […]
Political parties in the country have described the attractiveness that has followed the Reverend Lazarus Chakwera due to his election as Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate as “mere excitement” that will not translate into votes. Although there has been no official survey to gauge Chakwera’s popularity, the social media and the public sphere has […]
Rev. Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, the recently resigned president of the Assemblies of God in Malawi, was overwhelmingly elected president of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) last weekend at the main opposition party’s long-awaited and hotly contested national convention. This means the end of an era for one the country’s veteran politicians, John Tembo. Tembo, who […]
Newly elected Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera is yet to come out with a complete line up of members of the party’s national executive committee (Nec). A party convention in Lilongwe on August 10 gave the new President a mandate to fill up the Nec posts in two weeks times after the meeting […]
So Rev. Dr. Lazarous Chakwera is the new top broom in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP)! Well and good, but what does the rumour mill have for the man in the collar? Perhaps the best way is to use a conversation between a pro-Chakwera pugilist and a pro-Tembo diehard. Chip ins will come from some […]
Former Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo has said he will now spend most of his time concentrating on reading, writing and farming. Tembo, who remains leader of opposition in parliament , said this Sunday when his successor the Reverend Lazarus Chakwera addressed his first rally at Ntchalachala in Kasungu barely a week after […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate for next year’s elections, Dr Lazarus Chakwera in his maiden political rally since he was elected the party’s president at the convention, has expressed confidence that he is going to build “a winning team” for the polls. In his address to thousands of supporters who attended his rally Ntchalachala […]
Former Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president John Tembo on Sunday told party supporters in Kasungu that he is solidly behind new president of MCP, Dr Lazarus Chakwera. Speaking at Ntchalachala ground in the tobacco growing central region district of Kasungu, Tembo said he was pleased that the MCP convention held at Natural Resources College (NRC) […]
Just a week after being elected as president of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Dr Lazarus Chakwera intends to hit the ground running. According to information from MCP , Chakwera will this Sunday, August 18, conduct his first public rally as President of MCP the party which he will lead in the forthcoming […]
on the occasion of the rise of Rev. Lazarus Chakwera to the MCP leadership When the face of leadership in the MCP changes from that of battle-scarred JZU Tembo, 81, to the more youthful Rev. Lazarus Chakwera, 58, the sentence is not yet complete. The failure of the MCP at national elections since the referendum […]
President of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Dr Lazarus Chakwera has said his party will consult extensively on any possible electoral alliance in readiness for the 2014 tripartite polls. Chakwera said he will also consult widely on the choice of his running mate. “We will decide at how best to approach the elections,” said Chakwera on Zodiak radio interview aired on […]
John Tembo has finally left the room, Reverend Lazarus Chakwera is in – career politician passing a political button to a man of God, completing the eagerly awaited 2014 presidential line-up. Smaller parties may yet feature their own presidential candidates and independent candidates may yet emerge but it is safe to say that baring any […]
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR), and Centre for Development of the People (Cedep) applauded Malawi Congress Party (MCP) convention which elected new president Dr Lazarus Chakwera, saying the party has enhanced intra-party democracy. The two organisations in a statement emailed to Nyasa Times said just as it was with the DPP, UDF […]
Newly elected President of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Dr Lazarus Chakwera has pledged that he would create a better Malawi for all if elected to be Head of State next year committed to o the rule of law and on the transformation of policies, institutions and systems towards being citizen centered. In his acceptance […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi on Sunday called president-elect of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Dr Lazarus Chakwera, to congratulate him on his election victory to lead the oldest party. Muluzi said in an interview after attending as a guest of honour at Likuni C.C.A.P where there was the closing ceremony of the Women’s […]
Leader of Opposition and former president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) John Zenus Ungapake (JZU) Tembo bade the party farewell with an appeal to its members to support his successor, Dr Lazarus Chakwera. Tembo on Sunday returned to Natural Resources College which was the venue of MCP convention hat elected Chakwera president on Saturday and […]