Lazarus has risen, and Peter Patrick is facing a re -match 2020

The turn to get fuel rather than the voting queue is that in the minds of many Molivians, as it approaches the overall elections on Tuesday.

Prolonged deficiency of gasoline, as well as regular reduction of electricity, increasing the cost of life, hunger, poverty, inequality and unemployment among young people, adds sensitive disappointment here.

Presidential candidates, parliamentary and local councils are fighting for voices against the background of cynicism that it can actually change.

As a sign that the money is dense, the electoral outfit was somewhat muted compared to the past. This is despite the fact that the presidential race is regarded as a match between the current, Lazar Chakver and the man he won in 2020, then President Peter Mutarik.

There are another 15 candidates.

But the usual colorful carnival company is missing. Free T -shirts usually stand out with a refusal to whisk enthusiasm, more limited.

There are less giant election shields on the main roads of the country.

Returning in the line of gasoline lines, patience goes skinny, which sometimes led to fist fights.

The fuel deficit has become a problem with the election, Chakver tried to solve it.

In the television address, eight days before the polls open, he admitted disappointment and apologized. Then the president turned the fire allegedly corrupt officials, whom he accused of deliberate sabotage of the oil market.

Like fuel, new work opportunities are also difficult.

To put food on the table, young people sell gasoline and diesel using small plastic containers five times more than the official price.

In the southern city of Mongoi, they refused to interview, except to say when they left that the field on desperate motorists was the only way to survive.

If the food costs increase by more than 30% last year and the salary does not keep up, everything is getting harder.

High inflation was partly lifted in a foreign currency deficit, which made some importers buy US dollars on a more expensive black market. The expenses were then handed over to the consumer.

The impact of economic troubles on young people can be especially significant in this election – because about half of the registered voters under the age of 35.

And yet two leading presidential candidates are much older. Chakver – 70, and the mutar – 85.

“When the youth threw the ballots next week, they should think about the poverty crisis. The upcoming president should fix the employment level because many young people are unemployed,” said 33-year-old Monica, who works in the Lylongwe capital.

Many young voters said the BBC that these continuous problems leaned the hobby of the elections.

“Looking at the candidates is a really difficult choice because hope was lost. We voted and voted, but everything has not improved,” said Ashley Firi, 35 years old. “

The electoral columns made several stops in the villages along the Bakili highway.

In one place, the fan rose to the sign, who said, “Return to the state house” and said that life was better when there was a former president as a position.

At the Mutharika rally, the elderly woman in a multi -colored handkerchief and Sarong raised a huge bucket and shouted “fertilizers”.

She emphasized an important issue for 80% of the population living in rural areas. Many of these people survive on the fact that they grow on their small conditions and make money from what is left.

Chakver promised to reduce the cost of a vital contribution of agriculture – but the price went back. Now it is six times more than it was in 2019.

The President “accused some opposition parties of working with private traders of distorting fertilizer prices,” his office said. He pledged the small farmers that the price would return to the targeted program, which should start next month.

Chakver had a hard five years at the helm, but remains optimistic.

He says he invests funds into the future of the country and, as a capital policy, he promised that the state would make 500,000 Malawi Kwacha ($ 290; 210 pounds) into separate accounts for each child born after the general election. They will be able to access it after reaching 18.

Another former president, Joyce Banda – the only state head of the country – also works again. She pledged to fight corruption, transform the economy and improve rural infrastructure.

Other presidential candidates, including Mulauzi, Dalites Cabambe and current vice-president Michael everyone, promised radical changes in one of the poorest countries in the world.

Voice paper lacks the choice, but Molivitsa will hope that the one who will come out as a winner – after voting on Tuesday or a possible second round – will be able to put more food on the table and more fuel in the reservoir.