Malawi president Chakwera concedes election defeat

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera conceded decision Wednesday successful past week’s election, saying successful an code to the federation that it was wide his rival Peter Mutharika had an “insurmountable lead”.

The erstwhile pastor took powerfulness successful 2020 elections erstwhile helium defeated the then-president Mutharika, a law instrumentality adept from the Democratic Progressive Party.

“A fewer minutes ago, I called Professor Mutharika to privation him well,” Chakwera said conscionable hours earlier the predetermination authorization was owed to denote the last results of the September 16 election.

Ahead of the announcement, “it was wide that my rival Peter Mutharika has an insurmountable pb implicit me,” said Chakwera, 70, from the Malawi Congress Party (MCP).

The dire authorities of the system dominated the predetermination successful the tiny confederate African country, with critics accusing Chakwera of mismanagement and indecisiveness and besides failing to tackle corruption and present connected promises to make jobs.

During his term, costs soared successful the agriculture-dependent and agrarian nation, with ostentation reaching 33 percent and the terms of staple nutrient maize and of fertiliser jumping, a cardinal talking constituent astatine the poll.

“In the days that remain, I privation you to cognize that I americium committed to a peaceful transportation of power,” Chakwera said. “I cognize that galore of you who supported my run for reelection volition beryllium disappointed.”
AFP

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