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Malawi Congress Party

1959 · 20th century

The Malawi Congress Party is a political party founded in 1959 as the successor to the banned Nyasaland African Congress. Under Hastings Kamuzu Banda it won the 1961 elections, led Nyasaland to independence as Malawi in 1964 and ruled as the sole legal party from 1966 until multiparty elections in 1994. Its leader Lazarus Chakwera won the presidency in 2020.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Malawi Congress Party. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/malawi-congress-party
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