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The new statesman, Lazarus Chakwera, is a former evangelical pastor who claims to have responded to God’s call to enter politics.
Malawi’s new president Lazarus Chakwera, winner of this week’s replayed election and returning to power the ex-single party after 26 years of crossing the desert, is a former evangelical pastor who claims to have responded to God’s call. to get into politics.
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Since 2013, he has led the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), which ruled this southern African country from 1964 to 1994 during the reign of Hastings Banda.
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The promise of “a government that listens”
Lazarus Chakwera, 65 years old today, tried to breathe new blood into it by standing out from the iron fist of Hastings Banda. “The leaders involved in these bad things have left the MCP,” he said recently.
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Since the advent of democracy, his movement has systematically lost all national elections. Its success comes to put an end to this series, on the third attempt.
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After taking his oath on Sunday, he promised his fellow citizens “a government that listens, not a government that cries out, a government that fights for you, not against you”.
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“God spoke to me”
Lazarus Chakwera built his electoral success by advocating a break with the regime of his predecessor, in his eyes corrupt and unable to lift the country and its 17 million inhabitants out of poverty.
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“God spoke to me. God did not say to me, I take you out of your ministry. He said to me, “I’m extending your ministry so that you can lead an entire nation,” he said in a recent video, where he poses in front of stained glass windows. In the countryside, this charismatic man got into the habit of concluding his meetings with a prayer.
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He was born into a poor family, after the death of his two older brothers, which earned him the name Lazarus, in reference to the character of the risen Bible. American accent, he graduated in philosophy and theology. “I love to sing, even alone in the shower,” he told AFP.
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(AFP)
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