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Mutharika makes octogenarian comeback as economic crisis bites

Landslide election victory reflects mass frustration with failed promises of the Chakwera government

After their comfortable election win, 85-year-old former president Peter Mutharika and his running mate Jane Ansah are expected to move quickly with an economic stabilisation plan after they are sworn in on 4 October. Their victory reflects widespread frustration at Malawi’s descent into dysfunction and economic chaos under President Lazarus Chakwera over the past five years whose Malawi Congress Party was seen as arrogant, corrupt and prone to ethnic favouritism.

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