{"id":54549,"date":"2023-12-15T21:59:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=54549"},"modified":"2023-12-15T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T06:30:12","slug":"dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2","title":{"rendered":"DPP says Mutharika eligible to contest at party convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson Shadreck Namalomba says the party\u2019s president Peter Mutharika is eligible to contest as president at the DPP convention.<\/p>\n<p>Namalomba who also speaks for Mutharika has said this in a statement dated 11 October,2023. Mutharika first competed for the DPP presidency at a DPP convention in the runup to the 2014 elections which he won.<\/p>\n<p>He was re-elected as DPP president in 2018 and was the party\u2019s torchbearer in the now nullified 2019 presidential election which he also won. Mutharika, however, lost the 2020 presidential elections which means he did not serve a second term as president.<\/p>\n<p>While the Constitution of Malawi allows Mutharika to stand again as president, there have been claims that the DPP constitution disqualifies him from contesting at the DPP convention.<\/p>\n<p>However, Namalomba has disputed this and has quoted article 5 of the DPP constitution which states: \u201cWhere the president of the party has been elected as president of the Republic of Malawi, that person shall remain president until he or she completes his or second term of office as President of Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Namalomba has argued that the article means Mutharika is at liberty to contest as DPP leader and as president of Malawi in order to serve a second term of office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party is therefore assuring its members and followers that Mutharika is free to stand and contest as President of the DPP at the DPP convention and as president of Malawi during the upcoming elections,\u201d says Namalomba.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes days after Mutharika told his supporters that he will bounce in 2025 in order to rescue Malawians from challenges they are facing under the Lazarus Chakwera administration. Mutharika says he will bounce back in 2025<\/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. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson Shadreck Namalomba says the party\u2019s president Peter Mutharika is eligible to contest as president at the DPP convention. Namalomba who also speaks for Mutharika has said this in a statement dated 11 October,2023. Mutharika first competed for the DPP presidency at a DPP convention in the runup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,10,410],"tags":[233,371,281,533,234,299],"class_list":["post-54549","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-democratic-progressive-party-dpp","tag-elections","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>DPP says Mutharika eligible to contest at party convention - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson Shadreck Namalomba says the party\u2019s president Peter Mutharika is eligibl ...\" \/>\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\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DPP says Mutharika eligible to contest at party convention\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson Shadreck Namalomba says the party\u2019s president Peter Mutharika is eligibl ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-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=\"2023-12-15T21:59:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/12\/sm_1702609121.594019.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\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\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DPP says Mutharika eligible to contest at party convention\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-15T21:59:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2\"},\"wordCount\":301,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/12\/sm_1702609121.594019.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)\",\"elections\",\"Malawi\",\"Peter Mutharika\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"parties\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-says-mutharika-eligible-to-contest-at-party-convention-2\",\"name\":\"DPP says Mutharika eligible to contest at party convention - 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