{"id":78665,"date":"2019-06-03T03:28:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T01:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=78665"},"modified":"2019-06-03T03:28:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T01:28:04","slug":"dpp-cancels-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/03\/dpp-cancels-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"DPP cancels rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Jameson Chauluka:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75974\" style=\"width: 381px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nicholas-dausi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nicholas-dausi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nicholas-dausi.jpg 381w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nicholas-dausi-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nicholas-dausi-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DAUSI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cancelled its much touted \u2018mother of all rallies\u2019 which was scheduled for Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>DPP spokesperson, Nicholas Dausi, Sunday did not give the actual reason for the cancellation of the rally, which the party\u2019s leader, President Peter Mutharika, during his<a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/peter-mutharika-calls-for-unity\/\"> swearing-in<\/a> ceremony at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre last week, said he was looking forward to.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe just decided to cancel it. We will communicate a fresh date in due course,\u201d<\/em> Dausi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The party had, before the cancellation, started clearing the ground at the venue of the rally.<\/p>\n<p>In the heat of the May 21 campaign period, Mutharika also cancelled a few rallies, sparking questions on his health, especially on the social media.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mutharika hit back at the critics who were speculating on his health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jameson Chauluka: Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cancelled its much touted \u2018mother of all rallies\u2019 which was scheduled for Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre Sunday. DPP spokesperson, Nicholas Dausi, Sunday did not give the actual reason for the cancellation of the rally, which the party\u2019s leader, President Peter Mutharika, during his swearing-in ceremony at Kamuzu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78665","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\/78665","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=78665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78670,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78665\/revisions\/78670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}