They may be even more so in 2005 watching the power struggle between President Bingu wa Mutharika and ex-President Bakili Muluzi's United Democratic Front (UDF)...
He has wooed figures formerly loyal to ex-President Bakili Muluzi such as Leader of the House Yusuf Mwawa Natural Resources Minister Davis Katsonga Deputy Chief Whip Henry Mussa and Information Minister and former UDF spokesman Ken Lipenga...
When Bingu wa Mutharika won the presidential election in May 2004 nobody expected much change from the previous ten years of Bakili Muluzi's presidency...
A long queue of cases waits to be heard in court cases concerning crimes allegedly committed during the decade of Bakili Muluzi's presidency when billions of kwacha leaked annually from government revenue...
People widely seen as having questions to answer include the former President current Vice-President and some of the UDF National Executive Committee (NEC): Bakili Muluzi: enormously wealthy Muluzi will probably escape prosecution at least for now...
Returning from holiday in the United States and Britain at the beginning of August ex-President Bakili Muluzi launched a counter-attack against the reformers claiming the UDF's supremacy over the government and warning: 'No government can rule without a past...
The new cabinet named on 13 June contains factions that will pull President Bingu wa Mutharika in all directions: The economists led by Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe who was an economic adviser to ex-President Bakili Muluzi...
The eight who keep their jobs suggest an economic focus: donor-friendly Goodall Gondwe a former World Bank colleague of Bingu's and advisor to his predecessor Bakili Muluzi as Finance Minister Chilumpha in charge of Statutory Corporations and Bingu controlling Civil Service and Defence...
Mgode formed in protest when Aford joined the then President Bakili Muluzi's UDF government in 2003 has also let down its supporters...
Winners Bingu wa Mutharika: from nobody to President in one year; overshadowed by predecessor Bakili Muluzi during campaign perhaps a puppet but critics are giving him a chance...
Bakili Muluzi: still widely believed to be in charge even without third presidential term he wanted; with lucrative business plans and influence over every political move he could even return to the presidency in 2009...
Malawians seemed reluctant to elect new President Bingu wa Mutharika the hand-picked successor to Bakili Muluzi as candidate of the ruling United Democratic Front (AC Vol 45 No 9)...