Director of Elections for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Ben Phiri has told voters in Neno that putting Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in Power is voting against democracy which was hardly earn in 1993.
Phiri who is on a campaign trail luring people to vote for President Peter Mutharika a DPP- United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate in the fresh presidential elections said people should not make a mistake of voting MCP back in power.
The minister of Local Government and Rural Development added that MCP which is leading the TONSE grand alliance did not form any democratic principles that can govern a democratic country like Malawi.
“In as far as democracy is concerned, during under one party system there was no room for democracy at all, people’s rights were infringed and there have never been a time that MCP came and denounced the same,” said Phiri.
Phiri recalled that MCP used to preach that democracy is war when people rose to fight against one party era.
“True to their word we have seen that after elections they started pulling down different structures in town, true to their word that the democracy will not work because in democracy the will of the people must be respected,” he said.
Responding to Phiri remarks, MCP’s publicist Maurice Munthali rebuffed Phiri’s sentiments describing them as senseless and irresponsible.
According to Munthali, it was Kamuzu Banda who gave room to multiparty democracy in the country adding that he had all the powers to say no if he had wished.
“Kamuzu was the one who ushered democracy in this country by allowing people to choose if they want multiparty or one party and he accepted defeat even when the votes were not fully counted. What sort of democracy do you want to see if you don’t regard Kamuzu as a democratic by offering Malawians a chance to choose?” asked Munthali.
Munthali then added that all the people who were responsible for killing and prosecuting innocent people in the MCP regime of one party are now belonging to DPP.
