{"id":52297,"date":"2023-11-12T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=52297"},"modified":"2023-11-12T05:45:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T05:45:03","slug":"of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections","title":{"rendered":"Of recycled Malawi politicians on unpalatable defections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Political defections deceive the mandate of the electorate, the fundamentals of a party system and lead to political instability in the country. The phenomena of anti-defection became popular in 1967 with a popular phase \u201caaya ram gaya ram\u201d when Haryana MLA Gaya Lal changed his party thrice within the same day.\u201d \u2013 Palak Mehta, Karnavati University, United World School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>I am of the view that political defections are meant mainly to cheat and disappoint the legitimate voters who spend their precious time and effort standing on long queues to elect leaders of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>In Democracy, it is left to the citizens to make decisions, instead of a single political leader. Voting in a Democracy is a responsibility, which is why most countries have age restrictions on it. Voting requires education.<\/p>\n<p>If someone is running for Presidency or Parliament, education is knowing and understanding what their general policies are, as well as how they react to stress and criticism.<\/p>\n<p>A relatively small portion of the Malawi citizen population is actually qualified to vote. Qualifications for this are merely a moderate grasp on the candidate\u2019s foreign and domestic approach.<\/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. Political defections deceive the mandate of the electorate, the fundamentals of a party system and lead to political instability in the country. The phenomena of anti-defection became popular in 1967 with a popular phase \u201caaya ram gaya ram\u201d when Haryana MLA Gaya Lal changed his party thrice within the same day.\u201d \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":52296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,10,410],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-52297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-parties","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"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>Of recycled Malawi politicians on unpalatable defections - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Political defections deceive the mandate of the electorate, the fundamentals of a party system and lead to political ins ...\" \/>\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\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Of recycled Malawi politicians on unpalatable defections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Political defections deceive the mandate of the electorate, the fundamentals of a party system and lead to political ins ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections\" \/>\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=\"2023-11-12T17:04:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/sm_1699755183.167882.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Of recycled Malawi politicians on unpalatable defections\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-12T17:04:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/11\/sm_1699755183.167882.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"parties\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/of-recycled-malawi-politicians-on-unpalatable-defections\",\"name\":\"Of recycled Malawi politicians on unpalatable defections - 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