{"id":2087,"date":"2011-05-17T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2011-05-17T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:35:47","slug":"democracy-in-a-test-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/17\/democracy-in-a-test-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"DEMOCRACY IN A TEST TUBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/democracy-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"democracy\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2088\" \/>Is politics a question of different rules, the same game?  When answering the National Referendum question of \u201cYes\/No\u201d in 1992, little did Malawians know democracy was a process that changes with leadership styles. The fact is that it had a starting point without and end point.  The first General Elections held in 1994 were a mere starting point and is recurring process.<br \/>\n Malawians endorsed the tedious process for the desire to taste freedom of choice of leaders unlike in the past when leaders were imposed on them.  This is because democratically elected leaders are servants of the people who elected them.  Proponents of the single party apparatus voted \u201cno\u201d to maintain the status quo under the guise of preserving state security.<br \/>\nIt is strange today to listen to attempts by sycophants who want to perpetuate family rule in a democracy by raping the National Constitution of Malawi. I a broad day light, the public broadcaster has been converted into a propaganda machine to win illegitimate sympathy votes from ignorant citizens.<br \/>\nThis amounts to criminal act that deserves condemnation from well meaning citizens. How could a brother  consecutively take over from a brother in the top most job in the country ? This is a quintessential of  high level  corruption and yet the Anti-Corruption Bureau is just watching without taking any action. Why is that so? This is the danger of nepotism.<br \/>\nIn summary, Malawians have to become their own liberators not to vote for the legalization of  corrupt deeds. Let us say No to corruption and Stop nepotism. Our democracy is now in a test tube. Long Live to Democracy. Long live to Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is politics a question of different rules, the same game? When answering the National Referendum question of \u201cYes\/No\u201d in 1992, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[220,557,258,558],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malawi-democracy","tag-democracy","tag-game","tag-malawi","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","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=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/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=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}