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A pressure level group, Hope Alliance, has emerged in Malawi’s ruling DPP with an agenda to fight for proficient governance from within to restore back up from the electorate in the run-up to the 2014 elections.

The alliance was initiated by 4 MPs— Peter Nowa (Mulanje Pasani Constituency), Jeffrey Ntelemuka (Blantyre City Southward East), Wells Gamah (Blantyre W) and Moses Kunkuyu (Blantyre Urban center S)—who in July spoke against the political party on its dictatorial tendencies.

The MPs, who merits the alliance now has 30 parliamentarians, argued that the party has lost popularity and it would severely bear upon its operation in the 2014 general elections.

The MPs have been meeting secretly strategising on their mission. They wanted to brand a public annunciation about their grouping final week, only the plan was aborted last minute to finalise preparations.

Kunkuyu, who is spokesperson of the alliance, insisted that they were non rebels but MPs who love their party and want to aid information technology regain its lost glory.

â€Å"It is a grouping of over 30 MPs who love the party. We want to fight from within the party. Nosotros want to bring hope to Malawians by ensuring that the party observes the rule of police, good governance, democracy and that Malawians are able to go basic needs,” said Kunkuyu.

He said the group wants to clean â€Å"DPP system” which he said bars ordinary members from reaching the leadership.

â€Å"We feel as MPs we take a say on whatever is happening. Nosotros feel our leader is poorly advised. We feel some people surrounding the President are blocking the style for those who want to tell him the truth. Every bit MPs, we bring to the President issues from the constituents but there is never feedback. We want to amend the advice channel,” said Kunkuyu, calculation the MPs accept been meeting on several occasions to hash out the agenda.

He said DPP’s lack of listening skills to dissenting views has led to the suffering of people in constituencies. He cited the shortage of forex, fuel and loftier maize prices as hitting people hard.

He said if DPP had listened to other views, it would non have passed some bills which it subsequently referred to the Police Commission for review.

Nowa said although those people advising President Bingu wa Mutharika requite poor advice, he is also to blame because â€Å"from our findings, the President himself is a problem. He does not listen to others”.

â€Å"The paradigm of the political party is destroyed. At the rate we are going, we DPP MPs cannot comfortably campaign in 2013 unless the business firm is cleaned and the epitome improved. That is our mandate. Nosotros want to give hope to people out there that things can change. On our office, we in the brotherhood will non exist forced to support things which are not in the public interest. Nosotros volition practise what the people on the ground tell us and we want that spirit to prevail in all the MPs,” said Nowa on Tuesday in an interview.

He said the brotherhood wants to tell the President the truth which comes from the ordinary members of the party on the basis so that he has a articulate picture of the situation in the run-up to the 2014 elections.

He added, â€Å"The electorate out there are aroused with most MPs. The political party promised a lot of things to constituents but such promises are not delivered. The party is killing us because come 2013, the campaign volition exist difficult if the party does not improve its way of treatment things. We sympathise with people in constituencies; they sacrificed their time to campaign for the party but 32 months after that practise, they accept non benefited anything from the party.”

He said the group has not yet informed the political party about the alliance because information technology was finalising the paperwork.

Nowa insisted that the MPs have no intention to bring together other parties.

The MP said the grouping has besides secured funding from some sources for its activities. He also confirmed that the group has over 30 MPs.

He said the grouping wanted to announce its position last week but the move was aborted final infinitesimal.

In split up interviews on Thursday, Ntelemuka and Gama too confirmed being function of the team forming the alliance.

Said Gama, â€Å"I am office and parcel of the germination squad. We desire to bring hope now because people take lost hope because of the electric current crises. We want to try to change the state so that we become back to onetime glory days.”

And Ntelemuka said, â€Å"That’s correct,” when asked if he was in the germination team of the alliance.

When we talked to the other MPs the 4 mentioned as belonging to the alliance, about of them said it was premature to exist exposed.

But DPP secretary general Wakuda Kamanga said, â€Å"If the MPs have issues, they should raise them from inside the party. They can accept the leadership to task from within the party. If they come across that there is resistance, they can decide whatsoever way to go. In that mode nosotros can develop the party. Let me call Kunkuyu to observe out about this alliance and I will call you for farther response.”

Asked to comment on the accusations levelled against the party’s leadership, Kamanga said DPP just similar all other parties does not enjoy ‘100 percent’ commonwealth considering information technology is a new phenomenon.

He also said the party and those surrounding the President practice non block others from meeting him. He said those who want to meet the President volume appointment through his adjutant-de-army camp.

Kamanga said Kunkuyu briefed him about the MPs’ stand. He said he advised them to brand a formal presentation of their agenda.

The formation of the brotherhood comes a few weeks after other DPP MPs met and expressed business over the deport of the President’due south brother, Peter Mutharika, who they accused of not engaging them and of conducting himself as if he were already an elected president.

Peter Mutharika is the party’s endorsed presidential candidate in 2014 elections.

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Source: https://www.mwnation.com/30-dpp-mps-form-pressure-group/

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