{"id":38090,"date":"2023-01-07T21:21:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2"},"modified":"2023-01-07T21:45:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:45:42","slug":"chakwera-must-resign-apm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2","title":{"rendered":"Chakwera must resign \u2013 APM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Former President Peter Mutharika has repeated his call for President Lazarus Chakwera to resign, saying Chakwera is failing to manage the Malawi economy and Malawians should not wait until 2025 to change government.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika made the remarks yesterday at St Augustine Ground in Mangochi where he held a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rally. The former Malawi President, who ruled the country from 2014 to 2020 when he was ousted in presidential elections, said Chakwera has failed to manage the economy, develop the country and implement his own promises.<\/p>\n<p>He said that his administration left US$1.1 billion in foreign reserves but currently the country has no forex and fertilizer and prices of goods have gone up under Chakwera.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticized the Chakwera administration for abandoning DPP administration program such as Malata and cement subsidy, construction of technical colleges and business loans for women youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy question to Chakwera is why did he want to be president when he did not have any ideas on how to run the country?\u201d asked Mutharika.<\/p>\n<p>The former then reminded Chakwera that he promised to step down if he failed to improve Malawi in the first two years of his presidency. According to Mutharika, Chakwera needs to resign and a referendum should be held.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a president but we have no leader. Chakwera is failing to manage the economy but he is refusing to step down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am urging churches and political parties to push for a referendum for Malawians to decide whether Chakwera should continue or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are saying this because 2025 is several years from now and if this administration is allowed to continue, this country would have been destroyed by the year 2025,\u201d said Mutharika.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the DPP is ready to return to power to continue its programs such as construction of a resort city in Mangochi. He added that if DPP returns to power, the economy would be restored in six months and programs aimed at turning Malawi into Singapore would continue .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were still the president, Malawi would have been like Singapore by now,\u201d said Mutharika.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Former President Peter Mutharika has repeated his call for President Lazarus Chakwera to resign, saying Chakwera is failing to manage the Malawi economy and Malawians should not wait until 2025 to change government. Mutharika made the remarks yesterday at St Augustine Ground in Mangochi where he held a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,371,307,306,234,299],"class_list":["post-38090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-economy","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi","tag-peter-mutharika"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chakwera must resign \u2013 APM - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former President Peter Mutharika has repeated his call for President Lazarus Chakwera to resign, saying Chakwera is fail ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chakwera must resign \u2013 APM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former President Peter Mutharika has repeated his call for President Lazarus Chakwera to resign, saying Chakwera is fail ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-07T21:21:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-07T21:45:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673113923.29.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"545\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chakwera must resign \u2013 APM\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-07T21:21:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-07T21:45:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2\"},\"wordCount\":362,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1673113923.29.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"economy\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\",\"Peter Mutharika\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-must-resign-apm-2\",\"name\":\"Chakwera must resign \u2013 APM - 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