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Principles of Engagement for a Successful Alliance Formation: An academic opinion

Greenwell Matchaya, PhD Firstly, this article is not meant to discourage or encourage any political party anywhere to go into, or withdraw from any political formation, alliance, party or grouping, rather, it seeks to contribute to the thought process on political formations in general. The article is academic in nature, and some of the principles are vicarious knowledge from fields of economics and law.   Secondly, the author does not claim that this is the only way of thinking on this issue, but rather considers this as a possible point of debate.  Having dealt with the context, it is worth noting that while there are some advances in areas of civil liberties, it is common cause that Malawi continues to grapple with untold poverty characterized by many a person unable to fend for himself, widespread starvation, malnourishment, economic stagnation, depressive interest rates, and lamentable low incomes per person, among others. Of course there are efforts to resolve th