Africa-Press – Malawi. The pressure group President Lazarus Chakwera’s Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has hit back at the party’s second vice president Harry Mkandawire over insensitive remarks for endorsing Chakwera as the only presidential candidate for 2025 tripartite elections.
The groups says no one has the mandate to endorse a candidate for the 2025 polls. On Sunday, Mkandawire said Chakwera would be the party’s presidential candidate; stressing there was nothing new about that.
But the concerned group’s spokesperson, Alex Major argues that MCP’s National Executive Committee (NEC) members’ mandate is until May 2023 elective convention.
“It is very immature and unreasonable to start talking about 2025 elections and as members we don’t subscribe to that.
“Mandate of all NEC members end next year May and therefore no one including Honourable Mkandawire has the prerogative to endorse a presidential candidate because even him (Mkandawire) doesn’t know his fate,” Major told Rainbow Television.
Major further calls upon the party leadership to begin preparing for the convention; including releasing calendar of events running up to the May 2023 elective convention where delegates will make their choice.
MCP spokesperson Maurice Munthali is yet to comment on Mkandawire’s claim that the party’s NEC meeting held two weeks agreed that Chakwera would be the torchbearer in the 2025 general elections.
However, University of Malawi political analyst Ernest Thindwa thinks Mkandawire’s sentiments are normal in politics. President Lazarus Chakwera’s Tonse government main partner including UTM, Peoples Party (PP), AFORD, MAFUNDE, Umodzi Party, PETRA are yet also to comment on the matter.
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