His campaign portrayed his presidential predecessor Bakili Muluzi as an embezzler of state funds who would be convicted in court...
The main opposition parties Tembo's Malawi Congress Party and ex-President Bakili Muluzi's United Democratic Front won 26 and 17 seats respectively...
Both his predecessors in the presidency Hastings Kamuzu Banda and Bakili Muluzi tried – and failed – to stay there for ever...
Meanwhile the UDF leader former President Bakili Muluzi faces a disintegrating party...
The Malawi Electoral Commission’s barring of former President Bakili Muluzi from May’s presidential election has sparked a crisis after the dissolution of Parliament and the start of campaigning (AC Vol 50 No 4)...
When Hastings Banda then Bakili Muluzi ruled Malawi and Kenneth Kaunda then Levy Mwanawasa ruled Zambia the issue had little significance for domestic politics...
President Bingu wa Mutharika is confident of victory in May's election under his new blue Democratic Progressive Party banner; John Tembo has a last chance under the Malawi Congress Party's black red and green as does Bakili Muluzi under the United Democratic Front's yellow...
The leaders of Bingu wa Mutharika’s governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) John Tembo’s Malawi Congress Party and Bakili Muluzi’s United Democratic Front keep a firm grip on their party bureaucracies so the conventions and primaries are mainly for democratic show...
President Bingu wa Mutharika’s letter of 28 October complained to former President Bakili Muluzi of ‘diabolical’ stories circulated by him and his United Democratic Front (UDF) cohorts alleging a whole list of physical and moral weaknesses in the President that include prostate cancer superstition drunkenness and embezzlement...
Lacking a more original strategy Malawi Congress Party leader John Tembo and the Chairman of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and former President Bakili Muluzi desperately wait for foreign aid purveyors mainly Britain to cut off funds in response to the political shenanigans - as once happened to Tembo and Muluzi themselves...
Those arrested are identified more or less with the formerly governing party the United Democratic Front (UDF) whose Chairman ex-President Bakili Muluzi was put under house arrest while senior members of his former government and party were charged with treason...