{"id":69569,"date":"2018-09-22T11:54:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T09:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=69569"},"modified":"2018-09-22T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T09:54:58","slug":"lunguzi-fights-to-retain-seat-mkaka-challenges-ngozo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/lunguzi-fights-to-retain-seat-mkaka-challenges-ngozo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunguzi fights to retain seat, Mkaka challenges Ngozo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faith Katambe:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lunguzi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19331 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lunguzi-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lunguzi-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lunguzi-610x322.jpg 610w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lunguzi.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>[dropcap]A[\/dropcap]s we cover Saulos Chilima&#8217;s United Transformation Movement (UTM) rally at Migowi Primary School ground in Phalombe today, we are also keeping our eyes on the on going Malawi Congress Party\u00a0 primaries taking place in Mzimba, Lilongwe and Dedza.<\/p>\n<p>In the Dedza East primary, firebrand lawmaker, Juliana Lunguzi fights to retain her seat.<\/p>\n<p>While party Secretary General, Eisenhower Mkaka, is challenging incumbent MP, Wintson Makala Ngozo, a long-time MP for Lilongwe Mpenu. \u00a0Ngozo is facing five other challengers.<\/p>\n<p>In the Mzimba North East primary, deputy Secretary General, Catherine Gotani Hara battles it out with seven other aspirants for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>The MCP primaries have been controversial and interesting so far with the likes of Joseph Njovuyalema losing to a young and upcoming politician in a shock result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Faith Katambe: [dropcap]A[\/dropcap]s we cover Saulos Chilima&#8217;s United Transformation Movement (UTM) rally at Migowi Primary School ground in Phalombe today, we are also keeping our eyes on the on going Malawi Congress Party\u00a0 primaries taking place in Mzimba, Lilongwe and Dedza. In the Dedza East primary, firebrand lawmaker, Juliana Lunguzi fights to retain her [&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-69569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69569","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=69569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69570,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69569\/revisions\/69570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}