{"id":76104,"date":"2019-03-27T03:45:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=76104"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:45:50","slug":"all-set-for-presidential-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/03\/27\/all-set-for-presidential-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"All set for presidential debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Emmanuel Chirwa: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/theresa-ndanga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/theresa-ndanga-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/theresa-ndanga-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/theresa-ndanga.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>All is set for the first phase of the presidential debate scheduled for Bingu International Convention Centre in Lilongwe on Friday, Presidential Debate Taskforce Chairperson, Teresa Ndanga, has said.<\/p>\n<p>Ndanga said they have sent invitation letters to eight presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>She said they have written Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader Peter Mutharika, Malawi Congress Party\u2019s Lazarus Chakwera, Saulos Chilima (UTM) and United Democratic Front\u2019s Atupele Muluzi.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThese leaders are yet to hand over the signed agreements regarding their conduct at the debate. The agreements, among others, are that their supporters will not incite violence as there would be people of different political views,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A few weeks ago, DPP issued a statement indicating that Mutharika and his running mate Everton Chimulirenji would not attend the presidential and running mate debates, but Ndanga said her team has engaged the governing party\u2019s leaders to participate in the event.<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the presidential candidates\u2019 debate would involve John Chisi of Umodzi Party, Peter Kuwani of Mbakuwaku Movement for development, Cassim Chilumpha of Tikonze Movement and Reverend Kaliya, an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Another debate that will involve all the presidential candidates will follow later. A debate modelled on the same concept took place in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Chirwa: All is set for the first phase of the presidential debate scheduled for Bingu International Convention Centre in Lilongwe on Friday, Presidential Debate Taskforce Chairperson, Teresa Ndanga, has said. Ndanga said they have sent invitation letters to eight presidential candidates. She said they have written Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader Peter Mutharika, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76104","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\/76104","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=76104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76108,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104\/revisions\/76108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}