{"id":79846,"date":"2019-07-01T03:47:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T01:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79846"},"modified":"2019-07-01T03:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T01:47:37","slug":"saulos-chilima-endorses-fresh-demonstrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/01\/saulos-chilima-endorses-fresh-demonstrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Saulos Chilima endorses fresh demonstrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jameson Chauluka:<\/p>\n

UTM leader Saulos Chilima Sunday endorsed the latest July 4 and 5 2019 demonstrations which Human Rights Defenders Coalition has organised to push for Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) Chairperson Justice Jane Ansah\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n

Chilima endorsed<\/a> the demonstrations during a \u2018Thank You\u2019 rally he held at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre.<\/p>\n

\u201cHolding demonstrations is a right of every citizen of this country. Even a baby protests by crying when unhappy with something. A baby does not need to be told when to cry,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The former State vice-president, who was accompanied by UTM vice-president Michael Usi and other top officials such as Patricia Kaliati, urged the protesters to maintain peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe demonstrations have been organised by CSOs [civil society organisations] and we will join them in solidarity. It is wrong for anyone to accuse us of bringing disorder. Malawians have always held peaceful demonstrations\u2014right from 1992,\u201d<\/em> Chilima said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UTM and Malawi Congress Party have, citing irregularities, petitioned the High Court seeking nullification of presidential election results after Mec declared Peter Mutharika the winner.<\/p>\n

The Constitutional Court, sitting in Lilongwe, is hearing the case whose full trial starts on July 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jameson Chauluka: UTM leader Saulos Chilima Sunday endorsed the latest July 4 and 5 2019 demonstrations which Human Rights Defenders Coalition has organised to push for Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) Chairperson Justice Jane Ansah\u2019s resignation. Chilima endorsed the demonstrations during a \u2018Thank You\u2019 rally he held at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre. \u201cHolding demonstrations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79846","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\/79846","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=79846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79851,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79846\/revisions\/79851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}