Lazaros is rising and Peter Patrica confrontation in re -match in 2020

The waiting list for fuel instead of the waiting list to vote is what is going on in the mind of many Malawi with the approaching general elections on Tuesday.

The prolonged gasoline deficiency, along with regular energy cuts, high cost of living, hunger, poverty, inequality, and youth unemployment, adds to the tangible frustration here.

The presidential and parliamentary council candidates and the local council are competing for votes for the background of ridicule about what may already change.

In a sign that the money is narrow, the elections were somewhat silent compared to the past. This is despite the fact that the presidential race is seen as a match between the job operator, Lazaros Chairura, and the man who overcame it in 2020, President Peter Mawtharika at the time.

There are 15 other candidates.

But the usual colored campaign carnival is missing. Free shirts that give up the abandonment of enthusiasm are usually limited.

There are fewer giant electoral advertising boards on the main roads in the country.

Once again in the infiltrated gasoline lines, patience is on thin, which sometimes led to the fist battles.

A fuel deficiency sensor has become an electoral problem, Chakwera tried to address it directly.

In a televised address, eight days before the polls were opened, he confessed to frustration and apologized. After that, the president led to his fire on the alleged corrupt officials who were accused of deliberately sabotaging the oil market.

Like fuel, it is also difficult to obtain new job opportunities.

To put food on the table, young people were selling gasoline and diesel using small plastic containers at five times the official price.

In the southern town of Mangoshi, they refused to conduct an interview with the saying, while they were moving away, that was for desperate motorists was the only way to survive.

As food costs increased by more than 30 % last year, wages are not going well, things became more difficult.

The partially high inflation rate has been placed to a lack of foreign currency, forcing some importers to buy US dollars on the most expensive black market. Then the costs were transferred to the consumer.

The impact of economic problems on young people may be especially important in these elections – as about half of the registered voters are under the age of 35.

However, the leading pioneering candidates are older. Chakwera is 70 and Mutharika is 85.

“When young people throw their ballot cards next week, they must think about the poverty crisis. The next president must fix the employment rate because many young people are unemployed,” said Monica Xinuko, 33, who works in the capital, Lilongy.

Many younger BBC voters told these continuous problems that have withstood enthusiasm for the elections.

“Given the candidates – it is a really difficult option because hope has been lost. We voted and voted but things did not improve,” said Ashley Ferry, 35.

The Mutharika election convoy led to several villages along the village along the Bakili Muluzi Highway.

In one place, one of the supporters set up a banner saying “Return to the state of the state” and said that life was better when he was the former president in his post.

In the march of Misharika in Machinaga, she was an elderly woman wearing a colored veil and a colored head and shouted “fertilizers”.

It shed light on the decisive issue for 80 % of the population living in rural areas. Many of these people survive what they grow on their young and earn money from the rest.

Chakwera promised to reduce the cost of biotechnology inputs – but the price has gone in the opposite direction. He is now more than six times than it was in 2019.

His office said that the president “accused some opposition parties of working with the private sector merchants to distort the prices of fertilizers.” Small holders have pledged that the price would return to the bottom under a targeted program that is scheduled to start next month.

Chakwera had five difficult years on her head, but she was still optimistic.

He says he is investing in the future of the country, and as a major policy, he pledged that the state will return 500,000 Malawi Kwashha ($ 290; 210 pounds) in individual accounts for every child born after the general elections. They will be able to reach it as soon as they reach 18.

Another former president, Joyce Panda – the country’s only head of state – is also working again. She pledged to combat corruption, convert the economy and improve rural infrastructure.

Other presidential candidates, including Autopili Moloosi, Dalitu Kabambi, and current Vice President Michael USI, have promised a fundamental change in one of the poorest countries in the world.

There is no shortage of choice on the ballot paper, but Malawi hope that everyone who appears as a winner – after Tuesday or the possible second round – is able to put more food on the table and more fuel in the tank.