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...
Professor Peter Mutharika of the DPP and the Reverend Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) are also faring poorly...
In a move especially controversial in Malawi Mussa also questioned the sexuality of Arthur Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party who is a widower saying he was ‘suspiciously unmarried and unfit for presidency’...
Despite the attacks on him Peter Mutharika has been making political capital from the government’s reluctance to address the homosexuality issue...
The MCP’s presidential hopefuls include a respected cleric Reverend Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera of Malawi’s largest Pentecostal denomination the Assemblies of God Church; the ex-President of the influential Farmers’ Union of Malawi Felix Jumbe; and retired Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo whom Banda accused of being part of the plot to swear in Peter Mutharika after the death of his brother in April 2012 (AC Vol 53 No 10)...
Lilongwe Chief Magistrate Agnes Chinangwa laid charges of treason against Peter Mutharika the late President's brother and former Foreign Minister; Bright Msaka Chief Secretary and civil service head; his deputy Necton Mhura; Goodall Gondwe former Finance Minister and Africa Director International Monetary Fund; and another eight officials...
All key members of the then governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) the plotters led by Peter Mutharika and the fiery Information Minister Patricia Kaliati argued that Banda had made herself ineligible for the constitutional succession because she had been forced out of the governing party...
Treason suspects now on bail Arthur Peter Mutharika brother of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika and acting President of the Democratic Progressive Party...
The DPP blocked any application of Section 65 from 2005 to 2009 when Peter Mutharika the late President's brother and now DPP leader was Justice Minister...
Peter Mutharika is emphasising his Lhomwe ethnicity and openly supporting anti-gay positions on controversial laws on homosexuality currently the other hot topic in Parliament (AC Vol 50 No 23 The rise and rise of ethnic politics)...
The DPP expelled Banda in December 2010 along with the current Vice-President Khumbo Hastings Kachali for refusing to support President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother Peter Mutharika as its presidential candidate...