After their comfortable election win 85-year-old former president Peter Mutharika and his running mate Jane Ansah are expected to move quickly with an economic stabilisation plan after they are sworn in on 4 October...
Peter Mutharika who was president from 2014 to 2020 was pronounced winner of the 2019 election but that was later nullified when the court ordered a rerun...
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President Lazarus Chakwera and his predecessor Peter Mutharika have been rebuked by the head of the Malawi Electoral Commission after both claimed they had won the 16 September elections...
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Former President 85-year-old Peter Mutharika tells voters he is a safe pair of hands who handed Chakwera a relatively stable economy when he lost the election to the ex-pastor in 2020...
The main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leapt on the failure of the ECF and its leader ex-President Peter Mutharika said Chakwera ‘hears and knows nothing' as he also complained about the state using violence against the opposition...
Chakwera faces ex-presidents Peter Mutharika and Joyce Banda in the contest which also will decide the shape of parliament and the municipalities (AC Vol 65 No 19 Three old hats in the presidential ring)...
The incumbent President Lazarus Chakwera who was elected in 2020 after the Constitutional Court nullified his predecessor Peter Mutharika's 2019 win faces Mutharika again as well as former President Joyce Banda who claims Mutharika won fraudulently against her in 2014 (AC Vol 61 No 3 Shock ruling resets poll)...
She subsequently left the country for four years only returning after striking a deal with Presidential sibling Peter Mutharika we reported at the time (AC Vol 59 No 9 Banda flies home)...
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Next year's presidential elections are set to be a rerun of 2020 after the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on 18 August endorsed former President Peter Mutharika as its candidate...
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Ex-President Peter Mutharika has profited from the tragedy...
Ex-President Peter Mutharika is planning a comeback according to his allies in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)...
The ECF had been negotiated by President Peter Mutharika two months before the Tonse Alliance came to power...