Malawi’s main opposition endorses ex-president Mutharika to run in 2025

Malawi’s main opposition endorses ex-president Mutharika to run in 2025

Malawi’s main opposition party, the Democratic Progress Party yesterday endorsed former President Peter Mutharika to be its candidate in next year’s presidential election.

Mutharika, 84, who was president from 2014 to 2020, said in his acceptance speech he and his party would fix the economy, whose growth has been anaemic and plagued by foreign currency shortages that led to lack of fuel and medicines.

He will face President Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party, who will be seeking a second term at the election scheduled for September 16, 2025.

“We come from a background of winning from the opposition. We will do the same next year. We are coming to fix the economy,” Mutharika told his party’s national convention in the commercial capital Blantyre.