Saulos Chilima is getting warnings from many quarters that an Alliance with MCP will curtail his political ambitions. Many warn him that Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is a party with a bloody past and will never relinquish the leadership to him when his time comes.
Latest to provide those warnings is the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) which has warned UTM president Saulos Chilima against partnering with the Malawi Congress Party (MCP).
The warning which has put Chilima in a political dilemma after the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) announced their working alliance with UDF on Tuesday morning, means Chilima has to look somewhere else.
According to sources within UTM, the Bishops led by their chairperson Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa have said their ‘son’ cannot go into a political marriage with a party {MCP} which wanted to have them killed when they supported democracy in the early 90s.
“You are aware of the bad blood between the church and MCP hence our advice against joining them,’ reads part of the letter which was referring to the statement which the then MCP senior member Mayi Manjankhosi warned to urinate on bishops if they support Democracy.
The UTM informant says despite Saulos Chilima getting excessive pressure from within UTM to go to MCP, his respect for Catholic bishops seems to be above everything.
Chilima’s dilemma was manifested during his interview with ZBS’s Joab Chakhaza on Tuesday evening who could not jab DPP and its leadership throughout the program.
During the 2019 general election many bishops namely Msusa and Bishop Martin Mtumbuka of Karonga diocese openly advised other bishops to support Chilima throughout their Parishes.
Even within the UTM some top officials are bluntly refusing any alliance with MCP whatever the condition. It is reported that UTM Secretary General Patricia Kaliati told Saulos Chilima that MCP will kill him once they get into power as an alliance.
Political Analysts say that MCP and UTM are ideologically and practically not compatible such that an alliance between them would be a forced marriage which will never last.
They say the alliance is being forced on them by the Constitutional Court judges who made a ruling in the election case that suggested to the two parties to pair up for the sake of unseating DPP from power.
This the reason many politicians fail in their positions..their are completely webbed in their desicion making.
Nonsense,whether you like it or not,we are going into an alliance
In this Alliance Chilima will be giving up his Future twice second. At some point the shoe fits
Cadet at it again, a clear sign that DPP are spending sleepless nights at the prospect of an MCP UTM alliance……Get over it, the alliance is real and its coming with a bang in the next few days.
I was there at the meeting on Friday and there were no factions as this article is trying to portray…..in every deliberations there are always different views and that is welcomed and that is what is called democracy. However the most important thing is that after deliberating a consensus is reached.
The talks with UTM have not started in earnest, however the general consensus in the Friday meeting was that there are big similarities between what MCP and UTM want to see happening in Malawi like, the total eradication of corruption and nepotism, creation of jobs for everyone, fair distribution of developments across the country and not just in the south, poverty eradication, respect of rule of law, reducing presidential powers, ending power outages and shortage of medicine in our hospitals just to mention a few….. It therefore does not really matter who leads the alliance, however it is obvious that the torch bearer in the upcoming election will have to come from the biggest party of the alliance, this is common sense.
Chilima will be the running mate out of respect since he is already the Vice President otherwise he would have been the second Vice President to mr Mia.
Mr Mia is a humble man and has already accepted that he will be the second Vice President to Chilima in the national interest of our country.
The salary and benefits of the Vice President and the second Vice President are the same so no issues there…….having said that, it is important to mention that both Chilima and Mia did not join politics for the money so stop portraying mr Mia as a power hungry man.
MCP can not dump mr Mia if anything it will be mr Mia himself who will dump MCP if these kind of articles gets to his head….but MCP has full confidence in mr Mia that he will do everything possible to make sure that the MCP UTM alliance works….
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Excellent, that is what we want as Malawians. Viva alliance viva!!!!!!!