Peter Muthrika has made a political comeback by excluding President Lazar Chakvera in a decisive election victory in Malawi. Unlike Chakvera, Muthrika’s campaign attracted a minor crowd, but gained a commanding margin, showing widespread disappointment in five years of economic difficulty.
Peter Muthrika was born on 18 July 1940 in Thayolo district in Southern Malawi. He is a prestigious scholar of the International Economic Law, International Law and Comparative Constitutional Law and decide in universities in Africa, Europe and the United States. Muthrika advised her brother, President Biging or Muntharika on foreign and domestic policy until her death in 2012. He later organized cabinet posts in May 2014 before being elected the fifth president of Malawi, serving till June 2020.
On the promises of distributing reforms with the aim of stabilizing finance of 2025, Muthrika’s 2025 bid, and creating a strong legal framework for decentralization.
Kingsley Jassi, a professional journalist with the Indian Mass Media, said, “Chakwe failed to manage the economy amidst the internal and external shocks, causing high inflation. No government can avoid finding a situation as it affects the normal standard of living.”
Poverty growth
Jassi said that in the last five years, poverty increased from 50.7% to about 77%, while inflation increased from 9.9% to more than 30% annually. In August, the Reserve Bank of Malawi reported the inflation rate of 28.2% in August.
Jassi attracted economic collapse for overseasing and food deficiency. “When a government spends more than the economy, the foreign reserve decreases, [Malawian] Quacha weakens, import costs increase, and inflation increases. He said that food insecurity has deteriorated, as production policies were inadequate, limiting agricultural productivity, “he told DW.
Mavuto Bamusi, the promotional secretary of the Political Science Association of Malawi, said that under the leadership of corruption and mismanagement, medical purchases and construction, under the leadership of weak vera. As Malavian looks forward, Bamusi said that Muthrika should restore fiscal discipline, implement penance measures and cut unnecessary expenses.
Citizens want decisive policies
Reverend Francis Mcenwire, general secretary of Malawi’s Evengelical Association, resonated thesis concerns, stating that the citizens mainly demand economic relief. “People want decisive policies that reduce the difficulties of recent years. The election was about the economy, and if the new president fails to work, the citizens will again speak,” Heer said.
General Malavian, however, remains carefully optimistic. A Lilongve Maa Thokozani Banda of three said: “This is not a relief just because a new government is coming. I want the real change. I want the cost of live to be stable. Life has been unnatural.”
A small scale businessman Anne Macchesi said: “Promises are not enough. It is almost impossible to run a small business with an increase in prices.
A lecturer at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (Mubas), political commentator Chimvemway Tsitasi mentioned: “Muthrika can lead to informal consequences, but a run-off is still possible. No matter what wins, economic challenges, lack of fuel, lack of fuel, lack of foreign currency, lack of foreign currency, and high inflation is really needed.
During its campaign, Chakwe’s manifesto focused on five columns: food security, employment generation, money creation, governance reform, and public service distribution. In contrast, Muthrika promised reforms to enable financial stability, bridge capacity intervals and support decentralization through a strong legal structure.
Malavian call for change
For many people, elections are a referendum on economic management. A cross -border businessman, who asked to remain anonymous, expressed disappointment in Malawi, who impressed his vote for Muthrika. He said: “During DPP [Democratic Progressive Party] Yuga, we could do for our business, there is a problem with Fourteen currency exchanges. We had no struggle to travel to South Africa on commercial visits. “Although this system was not correct, he said that business was possible. The DPP era in Malawi refers to the period when the Democratic Progressive Party, led by Big or Muthrika and later Peter Muthrika, shaped economic and political policies from 2004 to 2012 and 2014 to 2020.
He emphasized that his decision was inspired by the desire for economic stability and the ability to trade crossing the border without difficulties.
Muthrika’s victory is not only a political comeback, but therefore a highly expense of a population for relief from economic turmoil. Further challenge will include converting promises into action and stabilizing the economy to restore hope and livelihood for everyday Malavian.
Edited by: Sarah Hukal