Malawi: Why Chilima-Chakwera, Not Chilima-Mutharika, Would Have Been the Likely 2025 Ticket
Tuesday, 26 August 2025 () [Nyasa Times] By any measure, Saulos Klaus Chilima was the most disruptive force in Malawian politics in the past decade. He burst onto the scene in 2014 as Peter Mutharika's running mate, injecting youth, corporate brilliance, and energy into a tired DPP machine. But by 2018, the honeymoon was over. Chilima denounced DPP as corrupt, nepotistic, and unfit to govern -- walking away to form the United Transformation Movement (UTM). From that moment, a Chilima-Mutharika reunion became not only improbable, but politically