{"id":65663,"date":"2018-05-23T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=65663"},"modified":"2018-05-23T06:48:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T04:48:05","slug":"udf-convention-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/23\/udf-convention-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018UDF convention on track\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Democratic Front (UDF) has said preparations for its August 1 convention are on track as Balaka North lawmaker Lucius Banda prepares to challenge Atupele Muluzi for the party\u2019s top job.<\/p>\n<p>UDF secretary general, Kandi Padambo, said three months before the party\u2019s big day at Comesa Hall in Blantyre, his office has not received any reports of hitches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe convention\u2019s organising committee, headed by the party\u2019s vice president Charles Chikuwo, [indicates that everything] is on track. So far, my office has not received any report of hitches,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Popular musician and politician Banda is challenging Muluzi because he says the party leader spearheaded UDF\u2019s working relationship with the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>If UDF successfully holds the convention, it will join the Malawi Congress Party as one of the few parties that have managed to hold an elective conference. Alliance for Democracy attempted to hold a convention last month but the party\u2019s leadership failed to agree on the issue of delegates.<\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s Party and the Democratic Progressive Party are yet to announce dates for their respective conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Democratic Front (UDF) has said preparations for its August 1 convention are on track as Balaka North lawmaker Lucius Banda prepares to challenge Atupele Muluzi for the party\u2019s top job. UDF secretary general, Kandi Padambo, said three months before the party\u2019s big day at Comesa Hall in Blantyre, his office has not received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65668,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65663\/revisions\/65668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}