Where is callista mutharika now

Four years later, however, the dream is over. The pair has split in acrimony. In July, he announced he would challenge his old boss for the presidency in the May elections.

However, the vice-president alleges that high-level corruption has actually worsened since Mutharika came to office. We will release them and replace them all with these real thieves. Nonetheless, the vice-president dramatic claims appear to have hit a nerve among voters.

They want to see a new approach to governance and like what they hear. The Vice-President has managed to persuade many other politicians and public figures to back him in his ambitions.

Malawi has a very young population with two-thirds under Having cut his teeth in business, many also hope he has better solutions to problems such as high youth unemployment.

While he may have age on his side, however, the vice-president could find it harder to win over rural areas. President Mutharika will go into the vote with all the advantages of incumbency. Joyce Banda, 69, is back in the country after a four-year absence and hopes to reclaim her old job. African Arguments. Elections Map. Climate crisis.

Malawi Politics. Why would the ruling party, the Democratic Progressive Party, accept such misuse of public funds? The answer may lie in the close relations these politicians share with the ruling party and the president. Some even have a closer association to the president. To be fair, the first lady did not seek an injunction to silence public exposure.

But the state-run Malawi Broadcasting Corporation was quick to justify the salary and castigated other media outlets that ran the story, local journalists told me. But how well does the government understand the public interest? In possibly the poorest country in Africa , the public may want to learn that their high-paid public officials commit tax fraud or that the first lady is chauffeur-driven, with fuel courtesy of citizens earning less than a dollar a day.

The original photo showed the late first lady Ethel Mutharika.