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| MCP MPs ask Bingu to resign |
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Joseph Langa, 10 February 2005
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MCP members of Parliament (MPs) have demanded that President Bingu wa Mutharika should resign as president following his confession that the May 2004 polls where he was elected president were rigged.
The MPs made the position at the end of their meeting in Lilongwe on Wednesday where they also unanimously resolved that the party will not sign or enter into an alliance with any political party “but will continue working and standing by its principles”.
In a statement sourced by Nation Online signed by the party’s administrative secretary Respicious Dzanjalimodzi and deputy publicity secretary Bintony Kutsaira, the parliamentarians are demanding Mutharika’s resignation “to complete the process of disassociating himself from the electoral fraud and rigging that he acknowledged last Saturday”.
“The meeting also resolved that since the President openly agreed that the elections were rigged, he should also resign from the office of President of the Republic of Malawi,” reads the statement in part.
The UDF made a similar request within hours of the President’s announcement that he had left the party.
The MCP parliamentarians agreed that the party will welcome MPs from other political parties or from independent side, with goals similar to those of MCP “to serve the people of Malawi inside and outside Parliament,” according to the statement.
The two officials also said in their statement that the meeting also unanimously agreed that the stand they have taken is without prejudice to the court action in which their President John Tembo is challenging the election results.
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