{"id":72652,"date":"2018-12-29T01:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T23:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72652"},"modified":"2018-12-29T01:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T23:24:25","slug":"mcp-manifesto-to-be-out-soon-chakwera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/12\/29\/mcp-manifesto-to-be-out-soon-chakwera\/","title":{"rendered":"MCP manifesto to be out soon \u2013 Chakwera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Audrey Kapalamula:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Lazarus Chakwera has said the party is expected to release its manifesto towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/malawi-electoral-commission-urged-to-mobilise-resources-for-2019-elections\/\">2019 elections<\/a> before Malawi Electoral Commission\u2019s nomination programme rolls out.<\/p>\n<p>Chakwera Friday told Malawi News that the party is in the final stages of drafting the manifesto dubbed as super high five.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI am told Malawi Electoral Commission has a programme that we will begin to get our nomination papers shortly. Before we submit these for people who we want to represent that party, we would have released our manifesto,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said the party has been consulting different stakeholders to get advice and they are ready with government procedures that will help the party and the nation once voted into power.<\/p>\n<p>The MCP president further said the party is ready for elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe were the first party to go to a convention and conduct primaries and we have had national youth conferences across this country. The moment the election is done, we will immediately implement our plans for everyone\u2019s benefit,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MCP commenced its primaries in August this year which has seen some Members of Parliament maintaining their candidacy while others defeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Kapalamula: Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Lazarus Chakwera has said the party is expected to release its manifesto towards 2019 elections before Malawi Electoral Commission\u2019s nomination programme rolls out. Chakwera Friday told Malawi News that the party is in the final stages of drafting the manifesto dubbed as super high five. \u201cI am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72652","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\/72652","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=72652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72660,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72652\/revisions\/72660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}