{"id":2045,"date":"2011-05-17T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T14:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2011-05-17T14:19:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T14:19:01","slug":"malawi-opposition-to-shun-state-of-nation-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/17\/malawi-opposition-to-shun-state-of-nation-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi opposition to shun State of Nation Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2046\" title=\"joyce_bandanew_thumb307_\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/joyce_bandanew_thumb307_1-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"Joyce banda PPM\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" \/>APA Lilongwe (Malawi)  Malawi opposition  intends to shun President  Bingu wa Mutharika during the delivery of the  State of the Nation  Address for the 2010\/2011 budget at the National  Assembly on Monday 23  May in a bid to protest &#8220;the governance concerns  which the country is  facing&#8221;, APA learns on Tuesday in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>The   president of the opposition party Malawi People\u2019s Party (MPP) Uladi   Mussa said &#8220;we are angry with the deportation of the British High   Commissioner, the indefinite closure of the two University of Malawi   Colleges and shortage of fuel and foreign exchange&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition parties have agreed that they should not go and listen to the address unless the issues raised are looked at.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an indication that we are not happy with governance issues in this country,\u201d Mussa added.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition  groups in Malawi say they are planning to hold mass action in  the  commercial city of Blantyre against President Bingu wa Mutharika\u2019s   deteriorating of human rights, record which culminated in his decision   to expel senior British diplomat, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition  parties such as the former ruling United Democratic Front  (UDF), the  Peoples Progressive Movement (PPM), the Peoples  Transformation Party  (PETRA) and MAFUNDE are planning to hold a civil  disobedience against  Mutharika\u2019s alleged deteriorating human rights  record which, according  to theml, culminated in his decision to expel  senior British diplomat  Fergus Cochrane-Dyet.<\/p>\n<p>The British envoy was ordered by President  Mutharika to leave Malawi  within 72 hours over a leaked diplomatic  cable about the Mutharika  administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APA Lilongwe (Malawi) Malawi opposition intends to shun President Bingu wa Mutharika during the delivery of the State of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[465,536,537,538],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malawi-democracy","tag-dpp","tag-opposition","tag-ppm","tag-udf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}