May 14. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former president of Malawi Peter Mutharika has publicly announced his candidacy for the 2025 elections, in an attempt to return to power after his defeat against the current president, Lazarus Chakwera, in the elections held in 2020.
The former president, who made the announcement during a political event in Blantyre, stated that the population “sees all the problems” that the authorities do not solve. “We will come next year. Salvation is approaching. I will return again in 2025,” he said in a message on his account on the social network Facebook.
Mutharika, 83, led the country between 2014 and 2020, when he had to leave office after the 2019 elections were repeated that year following an appeal by the opposition, which denounced irregularities. Finally, Chakwera won the elections after collecting 59 percent of the ballots.
These elections were held in the midst of an upsurge in tensions, especially after the aforementioned annulment of the 2019 vote – the second of its kind in the recent history of the continent, after those of 2017 in Kenya – and in the face of growing popular unrest. due to the economic and social crisis in Malawi.
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