BLANTYRE, Malawi, Aug. 18 — Peter Mutharika, former Malawian president and leader of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), said he is poised to win the country’s presidential seat in September 2025 “to restore democracy” in the country. Mutharika made the remarks Sunday at the opening of his party’s national elective convention held in the commercial city of Blantyre, ahead of the elections to be held on Sept. 16, 2025. The former Malawian leader, who announced his comeback earlier in the year, hinted at an alliance with other parties, namely, the United Democratic Front (UDF), United Transformation Movement (UTM), and Alliance for Democracy (AFORD).
Mutharika claimed that 90 percent of Malawians want the DPP to return “because of how the party governed between 2014 and 2020” before the party and its leadership were ousted by the Tonse Alliance led by the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), under the incumbent President Lazarus Chakwera. The DPP leader, whose presidential bid went unopposed at the convention, said now that he’s gotten the party’s endorsement to contest in the 2025 presidential polls, the current leadership “should start packing.” DPP is the second party to hold a convention after the MCP held its elective national convention from Aug. 8-10 to endorse President Lazarus Chakwera to be the party’s presidential candidate in the September 2025 election. Malawi has 20 registered political parties in total, including the ruling MCP, opposition DPP, UTM, UDF and former president Joyce Banda’s People’s Party (PP).
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