{"id":78970,"date":"2019-06-10T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T08:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=78970"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T08:37:53","slug":"peter-mutharika-promises-cabinet-by-june-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/peter-mutharika-promises-cabinet-by-june-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Mutharika promises Cabinet by June 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jameson Chauluka: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

President Peter Mutharika has promised to name his 20-member Cabinet by June 21 2019 when the budget meeting of Parliament opens.<\/p>\n

Mutharika said this when he addressed a rally at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre Sunday to celebrate his re-election<\/a> on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ticket in the disputed May 21 Tripartite Elections, which opposition parties have challenged.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that everyone is waiting for me to name the Cabinet but you should be patient. Doing all the background work on everybody takes time; so, all of you who have your ambitions will have to wait,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mutharika was on fire, uncharacteristically branding all his challengers as cry-babies who claim that the elections were rigged.<\/p>\n

He thanked Malawians for voting for him even in districts such as Nsanje and Chikwawa, where his critics did not expect him to get many votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were saying that people in the DPP cannot rig the elections because they are amateurs. Amati ndi mafanatu ifeyo. Amati za technology ndikudya kwawo sitingabere chisankho koma lero akuliratu [They said we were amateurs to rig the elections but now they are crying that we rigged the elections]. I am just a lawyer and not an IT expert, so thinking that I can rig the elections is crazy,\u201d<\/em> Mutharika said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He alleged that Malawi Congress Party\u2019s (MCP) leadership was mobilising its supporters to destroy roads and schools in protest against results of the presidential poll.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MCP people are destroying the Lilongwe- Kasiya Road which cost around K90 billion. They are destroying schools in protest against the election results. Let me say now here that I will not repair that road. I will not repair it; the MCP should repair it,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI heard someone saying he would be demonstrating until I step down but I am telling you that you will be protesting until 2024,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, the MCP leadership has dismissed Mutharika\u2019s claims that the party was instigating violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jameson Chauluka: President Peter Mutharika has promised to name his 20-member Cabinet by June 21 2019 when the budget meeting of Parliament opens. Mutharika said this when he addressed a rally at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre Sunday to celebrate his re-election on Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ticket in the disputed May 21 Tripartite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78970","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\/78970","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=78970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78975,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78970\/revisions\/78975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}