By Vincent Gunde
President and Commander in Chief of Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) Bantu Saunders Jumah, says he has endorsed the communique signed by three opposition parties DPP, UTM and AFORD for the 2025 elections to be free, fair, transparent and credible.
Jumah said the three parties are representing the wishes and aspirations of each and every Malawian to see to it that the 2025 elections reflect the will of the people for the country to move forward and not backward as per the thinking of the MCP.
He said citizens change government for change, nobody wants the past to come back but the future to come saying this is why elections are held in every five years observing that Malawians could have a new President on 21st May, 2024 but some other people regarding themselves as more important than Malawi switched the elections to 21st September, 2025 to suit their own interests.
In the communique reached by DPP, AFORD and UTM, the three parties called for a commission of inquiry to establish circumstances that led to the tragic death of Dr. Saulosi Chilima and eight others, independent auditors to audit the 2025 elections results, no to Smartmatic machine in the 2025 elections, and no to electronic transmission of results.
The three opposition parties advised the MCP government to postpone Mec Voter registration exercise which is starting on 21st October, 2024, Mec Chairperson Justice Anabel Mtalimanja and Chief Elections Officer Shadreck Mpesi must go.
Opposition DPP, UTM and AFORD issued a stern warning to the MCP government that if the issues raised are not addressed, they will mobilize their supporters to go into the streets protesting against the MCP plans of rigging the 2025 elections.
Speaking through a Revolutionary voice, Bantu Saunders Jumah, said Mec Chairperson Justice Anabel Mtalimanja is in conflict of interest being the daughter of the late Mr. John Tembo observing that a mango tree will never produce orange fruits, Mtalimanja is MCP.
Jumah said Malawians were not told of the reasons that led the MCP fail to renew the contract of Justice Dr. Chifundo Kachale, a man who presided the 2020 court sanctioned fresh presidential elections in the interest of all.
He has demanded for Justice Kachale to come back at Mec to preside over the 2025 elections just the same as he did with the June, 2020 elections for elections to be free but with Justice Anabel Mtalimanja, this can be translated as taking Malawians for granted.
“DPP, AFORD and UTM are futuristic parties not these other smaller parties that are saying these parties are afraid of MCP winning the 2025 elections with a landslide victory,” said Jumah.
He has pleaded with President Chakwera to listen to the concerns of the three opposition parties and address them urging Malawians that this is the time to scrutinize all political parties that some are there for money from MCP and not the future of the country.
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