Joyce Banda Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Cabinet appointments and loss of 2014 presidential election==== On 26 April 2012, President Banda chose her cabinet, composed of 23 ministers and nine deputy ministers. She gave herself several key portfolios to strengthen her own power as the country's leader.<ref name="newcabinet">{{cite web |last1 = Mapondera |first1 = Derek |last2 = Tenthani |first2 = Raphael |title = Malawi's Pres Joyce Banda sacks predecessor's brother, hires new cabinet which includes ex-leader's son |work = The Maravi Post |date = 26 April 2012 |url = http://www.maravipost.com/malawi-national-news/malawi-political-news/855-malawi-s-pres-joyce-banda-sacks-predecessor-s-brother,-hires-new-cabinet-which-includes-ex-leader-s-son.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210118064944/http://www.maravipost.com/malawi-national-news/malawi-political-news/855-malawi-s-pres-joyce-banda-sacks-predecessor-s-brother,-hires-new-cabinet-which-includes-ex-leader-s-son.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 18 January 2021 |access-date = 26 April 2012 }}</ref> On 10 October 2013, a few days after returning from a trip to the UN, President Joyce Banda sacked her cabinet following the [[Capital Hill Cashgate scandal]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24484557 |title=Malawi's Joyce Banda sacks cabinet amid corruption row |work= BBC News |date=10 October 2013 |access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/malawi-cabinet-idUSL6N0I03M020131010 |title=Malawi president dissolves cabinet in wake of graft scandal |publisher= Reuters |date=10 October 2013 |access-date=30 December 2013}}</ref> On 15 October, a new cabinet was appointed, and notably Finance Minister [[Ken Lipenga]] and Justice Minister [[Ralph Kasambara]] were dropped from the cabinet. In May 2014 Joyce Banda was heavily defeated in the presidential election. She failed in an attempt to nullify the election. She did not attend the swearing in of the winner, Peter Mutharika, but offered him her congratulations.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27648964|title = Malawi election: Peter Mutharika sworn in as president|date = 31 May 2014|work = BBC News|access-date = 25 January 2015}}</ref> She lived outside Malawi beginning in 2014. A warrant for her arrest in connection with alleged corruption during her stint as President was announced on 31 July 2017, although she remained outside the country.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170801110321/http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN1AH3KK-OZATP "Malawi issues arrest warrant for former president over graft scandal"], Reuters, 1 August 2017.</ref> She denied the charges and said that she would return to face them.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170802141807/https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN1AI0RC-OZATP "Malawi's former president says "innocent" of graft, will return home"], Reuters, 2 August 2017.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page