Leaked?: DPP 2019 strategy

BY REBECCA CHIMJEKA:

The run-up to May 2019 upcoming general elections has taken an interesting turn as election campaign strategy, allegedly of the Democratic Progress Party (DPP) which has been leaked suggests they want to use Malata Subsidy as one of their campaign tools.

According to the leaked agenda of the meeting which the party had this week in Lilongwe, which Malawi News has seen, the DPP would also like to use Malawi Rural and Electrification Project (Marep) and Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp) as some of the campaign tools.

According to the alleged strategy, DPP would like “Kupana ma civil Servants” (to pin civil servants) and other political parties.

But the party’s spokesperson Nicolas Dausi has distanced the party from the leaked strategy saying that the party cannot be careless to put people in the committee that can put such information in the open.

“This is not an authentic document. People can just scribe something and attach it to Democratic Progress Party. I don’t think we can be careless to have our campaign agenda found in the hands of the people,” he said.

But some sources within the DPP, who attended the meeting, confided in us that the meeting really took place and the issues were discussed.

The DPP early this month elected President Peter Mutharika as the party’s candidate in next year’s elections during the party’s elective conference. That was after the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) had theirs in May.

The United Democratic Front (UDF) and the People’s Party (PP) are expected to hold their respective conventions next month.

Apart from Alliance for Democracy (Aford) whose convention in April ended in controversy, MCP and DPP have already started intensifying their campaign ahead of the tripartite elections.