The People’s Party (PP) and the Malawi Forum for Unity and Development (Mafunde) announced in Blantyre yesterday that they have agreed to team-up in the 2025 General Elections.
Both quit the nine-party Tonse Alliance that ushered President Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) into power in the June 23 2020 court-sanctioned fresh presidential election.
PP secretary general Ben Chakhame and his Mafunde counterpart Salim Karim said the two parties were forming a political bloc.
“We are working on a memorandum of understanding with the reflection of the bitter lessons we learnt from the Tonse Alliance, that such an agreement should go beyond winning an election.
“Besides, we have other parties knocking on our door and we certainly will have to incorporate them so that the family grows bigger,” said Chakhame.
He said the party was not swayed by the recently released Afrobarometer results, which put them in the one percent bracket of Malawians’ political party choices.
“The survey was conducted in August, when we were still in the Tonse Alliance. But from the bitter lessons we learnt, we are now out and if the research was done again today, the figures would reflect otherwise,” he said.
On his part, Karim said by entering into a pact with PP they were moving into the direction of doing right for all Malawians.
“We want things to go right for all people, that is why we will field the same candidate for local, parliamentary and presidential elections,” said Karim.
