{"id":67967,"date":"2018-07-03T19:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T17:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67967"},"modified":"2018-07-03T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T18:03:09","slug":"mutharika-asks-losers-not-to-quit-dpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/03\/mutharika-asks-losers-not-to-quit-dpp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutharika asks losers not to quit DPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jameson Chauluka<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/commoditiesNews\/idAFL8N1TX0HH\">President Peter Mutharika<\/a> on Tuesday asked the losers at the party\u2019s elective convention not to quit the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) but stay to make the party better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis convention has been peaceful and we have emerged stronger,\u201d Mutharika said in his acceptance speech after being elected unopposed as the party\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67968\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DPP-Convention-in-pictures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-67968\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DPP-Convention-in-pictures-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DPP-Convention-in-pictures-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DPP-Convention-in-pictures-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DPP-Convention-in-pictures-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DPP-Convention-in-pictures-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DPP-Convention-in-pictures-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DPP-Convention-in-pictures-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DPP-Convention-in-pictures.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Mutharika with first lady Getrude at the party convention<\/span><\/em> &#8211; <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Picture by Lisa Kadango<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mutharika, who is facing calls to resign and call for early elections, said that the ones that lost positions will be accommodated in the party and given other roles.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The delegates also voted for Uladi Mussa as their main man in the opposition strong hold of central region and Kondwani Nankhumwa was elected vice president tasked to man the party\u2019s southern region stronghold which is under threat from Mutharika&#8217;s opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether you have won or not we all family, we are DPP. What we need to do is work together and win the 2019 elections,\u201d Mutharika said<\/p>\n<p>Nankhumwa beat Trade minister Henry Mussa and Agriculture Minister Joseph Mwanvekha while George Chaponda, who is facing graft charges, pulled out of the race minutes before the voting started\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mussa beat Hetherwick Ntaba and Minister of Justice Sam Tembenu for the position of central region.<\/p>\n<p>Sports and Labour Minister Francis Kasaila also lost his position as spokesperson of the party to Nicholas who chaired the convention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jameson Chauluka Malawi\u2019s President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday asked the losers at the party\u2019s elective convention not to quit the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) but stay to make the party better. \u201cThis convention has been peaceful and we have emerged stronger,\u201d Mutharika said in his acceptance speech after being elected unopposed as the party\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67967","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=67967"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67979,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67967\/revisions\/67979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}