AEP/Richard Chirombo
Former president, Bakili Muluzi, who teamed up with Malawi Congress MCP (MCP) president John Tembo to unseat President Bingu wa Mutharika during the May19 presidential elections may quickly be recovering from the political shuttering shock of that defeat as he has now started making public statements.
This contradicts the situation for former alliance partner Tembo. With the voices for his resignation growing louder by the day, and political bickering within his own party about his leadership style unravels, he hardly has time for public statements.
Tembo has not spoken in public about any policy issue since his disastrous performance in the race to State House. Not Muluzi.
The former president said today he would not rest until government sets aside June 14, the day Malawi attained multiparty democracy from the one party regime of MCP in 1994, as a special day.
Muluzi says June 14 is such a momentous and memorable day that not celebrating it was tantamount to "spitting" on the people who fought for multiparty democracy in Malawi.
"Some of them even died. So, I am asking government to set aside June 14 for these people; we need to be remembering them as a nation because of the sacrifices they made," said Muluzi, making his inaugural post-defeat public statement.
He last spoke before announcement of the May 19 elections results, in which, among other things, he congratulated Mutharika.
Government is yet to respond to the request.
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