With the resumption of international support for the national budget still a distant prospect  President Peter Mutharika's government is having to be inventive in seeking ways of plugging the gap in public finances...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Other statements from her office published in the local press claimed that the government had coerced Lutepo and other witnesses at the Cashgate trial to make claims against her  which the office of Banda's successor  President Peter Mutharika has denied...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 55 No 20 | 
            - AFRICA
- URANIUM
	     This was still a work in progress by the time of the polls and nothing has been heard of it since President Peter Mutharika took office...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Although the DPP's President Peter Mutharika has been in power now for over three months  this pledge has not been honoured and it now seems unlikely to be...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    President Peter Mutharika has held no mass rallies  travelled abroad just once and spoken in public only five times...
 Although Section 65 of the constitution forbids members of Parliament from changing party without triggering a by-election  all governments of the multiparty democracy era – including during the time that Peter Mutharika was legal advisor to his brother – found ways of getting around the provision (AC Vol 55 No 12  Mutharika  the sequel)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    All eyes have turned to President Arthur Peter Mutharika's plans  policies and appointments now that the turbulent post-election period is over...
 With such vast scope for anti-government alliances and tactical combinations  it will be difficult for Peter Mutharika to pursue the outright ethnically-based policies and appointments of his late brother  Bingu wa Mutharika  who favoured his Lhomwe group...
 This provision  forbidding members of parliament from changing political party without standing in a new election  has been circumvented by successive government law officers  including Peter Mutharika himself...
 A measure of this was the public presentation of his daughters Monique Peter Mutharika and Moyenda Mutharika Knapp  who are both lawyers in the United States  in an apparent effort to scotch  during the last days of the campaign  the whisperings of opponents that he was gay...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Disregarding the constitution  she tried to cancel the polls when it became clear that she was running a distant third behind her arch-rival Peter Mutharika  for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)  and Lazarus Chakwera  for the Malawi Congress Party (MCP)...
  Although it is now looks certain that Peter Mutharika's victory will be announced before long  court battles – including over more than a dozen injunctions – were still going on as AC went to press...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Professor Peter Mutharika  brother of the late President Mutharika  stands for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP  AC Vol 52 No 21  Brothers-in-arms)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Opponents of Professor Peter Mutharika  presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and brother of the late Bingu wa Mutharika  the last elected President  are challenging his eligibility to stand on the grounds that he possesses a Green Card  which gives him right of residence in the United States...
 Peter Mutharika's possible running mates include Henry Chimunthu Banda  Jean Kalirani  Nick Masebo and Heatherwick Ntaba...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Kachali denied it hotly and sued a radio station owned by DPP President Peter Mutharika's family which repeated the charge  claiming K1 bn...