As Malawi readies for its Presidential Election 2.0, things are looking good for the opposition, reports GoldenMatonga
Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika faces an uphill task to win a second term in a second attempt after a court nullified his re-election in May last year. Polls for the new election tomorrow , project a victory for the opposition alliance.
Chakwera has appointed Chilima running mate and Mutharika has partnered with another 2019 presidential candidate, Atupele Muluzi, of the United Democratic Front , as both opposition and ruling parties seek to attain 50% plus 1 votes to win the elections., citing a number of electoral irregularities. Both Chilima and Chakwera had brought their own petitions against the election result to the court.
Ahead of the new vote, opinion polls indicate that a majority of Malawians are dissatisfied with the general direction of the country. Joseph Chunga, a political scientist at the University of Malawi, said apart from the opinion polls projecting opposition victory, “over the entire campaign period, the opposition have outplayed the incumbent in terms of aggressively pursuing votes across the country. [Mutharika] stayed away from the campaign trail until the very end.”
The opposition is tapping into dissatisfaction among citizens. It is promising to create jobs and to end corruption and economic stagnation in one of the world’s poorest nations.whose re-election was undermined by a huge corruption scandal in 2013.
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