“President of Tipp-Ex” or the long-awaited Malawi savior?

Just five years after being drastically not prohibited by a judgment, Peter Mutarika is ready to return to power as President of Malawi.

Mutharika, which has occupied the highest work from 2014 to 2020, seems to be triumphant in the general election from last week, usurping his longtime rival, President Lazar Chakver.

Mutarika told the voters on the traces of the campaign that life was just better under it -Malawi had survived one of his oldest economic downturns since only the only.

But the recording of the 85-year-old mutarika has its own stains, from accusations of corruption to debate, which ended his first presidency.

This is the fourth time he was running for office, but initially mutarika did not intend to enter politics.

Born in 1940 in the area of ​​Tiolo’s tea, he was raised by two teachers and developed a love for education.

“I grew up in a family where my parents were teachers, and I spent my entire life in higher education, at seven universities on three continents,” said Mutarian in 2017, during an address at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

He visits the Dea Secondary School, an institution in Central Malawi, known for maintaining remarkable politicians, and studied law in the 60s at the prestigious Yale University in the United States.

Mutarian continued to become a professor, building experience in international justice. He spent decades away from teaching Malawi at universities in the United States, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia.

In the end, Mutarika turned to politics in 2004, when his older brother Bang became President of Malawi.

Mutharika returned home to serve as an adviser to the new president, and in 2009 he was elected a deputy for the ruling democratic progressive party (DPP).

He serves in his brother’s office as Minister of Justice, Minister of Education, and then Foreign Minister.

Mutharika has scaled the heights of power relatively calmly, but tensions appeared in 2010, against the backdrop of reports that Bing plans to name his brother as a candidate for DPP’s 2014 election president.

“Each week, the superiors from all over the country are parked on national television to sing Petter Mutarian … Many of the public are outraged, given this screaming unknown,” writes the journalist Malawi Francis in the plague in GuardianS

But inheritance plans were abruptly interrupted in April 2012.

At the age of 78, the president suffered a cardiac arrest and died. Mutarika paid tribute to the late leader of his funeral, describing him as “my brother, my friend, and also my hero.”

With the free Presidency, a struggle for power emerged. Malawi’s Constitution provides that if the head of state dies his post, the Vice President takes over, but Bing has fallen with his deputy chairman Joyce Band for controversial plans to install his brother.

DPP expelled a band, which subsequently formed a new party party (PP), but refused to withdraw as Vice President.

When the President died, his supporters tried to install mutars as a leader as a leader of the constitution, but eventually Gang prevailed and became the first female president of MalawiS

Mutarika was accused of betrayal after being accused of being part of a plot to hide his brother’s death to give him time to maneuver to protect a band from the presidency.

He dismissed the allegations as frivolous and politically motivated – and they had dropped out after he was elected president in 2014, beating a gang and a chakver with just over 36% of the vote.

Mutharika supporters say his first power residence raised Malawi, pointing to the billions of dollars of Chinese loans, which he provided to update the country’s infrastructure.

Inflation also decreases significantly during the first mutational term. When he succeeded, inflation was 24% – until she left, she contracted to one -digit figures.

But the mandate of Mutharika also saw eclipses, a shortage of food and more than the corruption scandals that have long struck Malawi’s policy.

In 2018, the Malawi Corruption Agency Accused Mutharika of receiving an overdone of $ 2.8 billion ($ 1.6 million; 1.2 million pounds) contract to deliver food to the police.

The Malawians took to the streets to protest, but later he was released from any misconduct.

He regularly defends himself as a supporter of the fight against corruption and extravagance, telling the BBC in 2015 that he is “the only president in Africa to travel with advertising.”

Although mutarika has endured accusations of corruption, he ultimately lost the presidency in one of the most dramatic moments in Malawi’s political history.

Mutarika runs for a second term in 2019 and after the votes were counted, he was declared the winner.

However, the Constitutional Court later overturned the election, saying it was widespread, including the use of Tipp-Ex correction fluid on results. The commentators made fun of Mutharika as president of Tipp-Ex.

The judges ordered a re -running for 2020 and was astonishing Chakver with 59% of the vote.

Although Mutharika marks the re -enforcement “unacceptable”, the Constitutional Court has acquired international recognition for the protection of democracy and refuses to be influenced by presidential power.

He suggested that he would not run for office again, but surprised many by entering this year’s presidential race, saying that his supporters wanted him to save the country from Chakver.

Since Mutharika left the post, inflation has grown after 30%. Cyclone Freddie, punishing drought, reduction of foreign reserves and other factors, pushed a lot of Malawi into extreme poverty.

During the campaign statements this year, the mutarika asked the public in the local language of Chicheva: “Munandisowa eti? Mwakhaula eti? (I miss you? Are you suffering, right?).”

But mutarika was rarely seen in public during the campaign, unlike the chakver, which was conducting numerous rallies in Malawi.

As a result, speculation about the health of the mutarian is full and there are questions whether he has the endurance to re -lead Malawi at the age of 85.

Nevertheless, the voters have trusted him. He even triumphed in areas that are known to be Chakwera fortresses, such as the capital, Lilongwe and Nkhotakota.

Although his political career was saturated, Mutaric’s personal life is relatively quiet. The AFP News Agency describes it as “reserved” while the mail and guardian of South Africa wrote that “friends say he is a diligent person, more calmly with books than political rallies.”

Mutarika has three children from his first wife, Christophin, who died in 1990. In June 2014, he married former parliamentary of the State Police Department Gertruda Maseko.

The couple will return to the presidential residence, but this time the mutaric dashboard will be much heavier.

Many Malawi were really injured, as mutarika noted in the statements of their campaign. So, after the dust from his small return settled, the nation will look, strongly to see if he is doing well with his promise to bring them back in better times.