Esther Mcheka Chilenje

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Esther Mcheka Chilenje is a Malawian politician from the Democratic Progressive Party. She was MP for Nsanje North from 2014 to 2021. [1]

Career

Mcheka Chilenje served as Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations. [2]

She was elected to Parliament in the 2014 general election and served as deputy speaker. On 19 June 2019, Catherine Gotani Hara was elected the first female Speaker of the National Assembly, [3] with 97 votes to 93, over Mcheka Chilenje. [4] [5] Only a third of the 2019 assembly were re-elected MPs. She was one of the notable re-elections together with Nancy Tembo, Rachel Zulu Mazombwe and former rival for speaker Catherine Gotani Hara. [6] However there was a court -ordered by-election in 2021 where she was defeated. She later complained that she had been swindled by a fraudster. [7]

References

  1. ↑ An Interview with Dr. Esther Mcheka Chilenje , retrieved 2022-08-08
  2. ↑ Improving the Health Care in Malawi , retrieved 2022-08-08
  3. ↑ "No Madando, No Tippex:Malawi legislators elect MCP's Gotani Hara first woman speaker of parliament". Nyasa Times. 2019-06-19. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  4. ↑ Alfa Shaban, Abdur Rahman (19 June 2019). "Malawi parliament picks first woman speaker: Catherine Gotani Hara". Africa News. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "Malawi parliament elects first ever female speaker". The New Times. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  6. ↑ "Parliament to have wife and husbands team of DPP's Nankhumwa, MCP's Zulu - Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi". www.nyasatimes.com. 2019-06-19. Retrieved 2025-02-17.
  7. ↑ "Prophet dupes former Minister and deputy Speaker of Parliament Esther Mcheka-Chilenje - Malawi Nyasa Times - News from Malawi about Malawi". www.nyasatimes.com. 2021-09-06. Retrieved 2022-08-08.


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