{"id":59030,"date":"2024-02-20T23:41:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=59030"},"modified":"2024-02-20T23:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:41:21","slug":"dpp-trashes-mcp-on-firings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-trashes-mcp-on-firings","title":{"rendered":"DPP trashes MCP on firings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has branded as \u201chypocritical\u201d sentiments which the governing Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has made regarding the expulsion and suspension of some of its members from the party.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, DPP announced the immediate expulsion of, among other people, its former vice president for the Southern Region Kondwani Nankhumwa, Mark Botomani, Cecelia Chazama and Nicholas Dausi following a disciplinary hearing where Nankhumwa and others were accused of convening an unapproved National Governing Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The development has sparked responses from MCP and political analysists, who have frowned at the move. MCP spokesperson Ezekiel Ching\u2019oma set the ball rolling on Sunday, when he said the DPP\u2019s decision is anathema to democracy which, he said, it claims to promote.<\/p>\n<p>But, through a written response, DPP has said it is unfortunate that MCP is more concerned with sanity and unity following resolutions of a legally constituted disciplinary committee\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DPP is, however, not surprised with the statement by MCP&#8230; The DPP also firmly believes [that] MCP\u2019s main fear is that the outcome of DPP\u2019s disciplinary hearing marks the beginning of the end of MCP,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n<p><b>MKAKA\u2014Their divisions are self-sponsored<\/b>However, MCP secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka said DPP misunderstandings have been fuelled by leadership style in the erstwhile governing party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they are honest enough, they should blame their divisions on [DPP president] Peter Mutharika for lack of sound leadership in the party. At first he said he was not going to stand [in the September 2025 presidential election]. He said he was going to let people compete freely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater, it transpired that APM [had] changed his mind [and said] that he was going to stand! This is what has caused divisions in DPP. It would be hypocritical to blame their divisions on outsiders. Their divisions are self-sponsored,\u201d he said.<\/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. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has branded as \u201chypocritical\u201d sentiments which the governing Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has made regarding the expulsion and suspension of some of its members from the party. On Saturday, DPP announced the immediate expulsion of, among other people, its former vice president for the Southern Region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":59029,"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-59030","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>DPP trashes MCP on firings - Malawi<\/title>\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-trashes-mcp-on-firings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DPP trashes MCP on firings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. 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