By Chisomo Phiri
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has expressed concern with remarks made by Member of Parliament(MP) for Lilongwe Mapuyu South, Esther Kathumba proposing that President Lazarus Chakwera should be a life president.
During the launch of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in Lilongwe on Thursday, Kathumba, stressed that she would move Parliament to amend the law in order to make Chakwera the life president for demonstrating transformational leadership.
In a statement,CHRR Executive Director(ED) Michael Kaiyatsa says such sentiments are a threat to constitutional principles and the hardly earned democracy.
According to Kaiyatsa, since 1994 when Malawians voted out one party system in favour of multiparty democracy, the country has made strides to grow her own democracy, therefore, suggesting imposing a lifetime president for them is not only dangerous but also lacking merit in all sense.
Kaiyatsa says, proposing lifetime presidency does not only go against the fundamental principles of democracy, which emphasizes rotation of power, but also has potential of destabilizing the political landscape in the country.
The director has also urged President Chakwera to denounce such pronouncements.
Meanwhile, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) through its secretary General Eisenhower Mkaka has denounced the pronouncement saying president Chakwera respects the existing laws of the land hence he cannot deliberately rape the constitution.
Mkaka has said, Malawians must understand that the remarks were only made out of excitement of the numerous developments the president is doing but they should not regard this as a position of the party.
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