Joyce Banda Malawi's first female vice-president 2009-2012
Banda ran as the vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the 2009 presidential election, running alongside Mutharika, the DPP presidential candidate.
She served as Malawi's first female vice-president, before becoming the country's first woman president on Mutharika's death. In a surprise move by the DPP, Joyce Banda and second vice-president Khumbo Kachali were fired as the vice-Presidents of the DPP on 12 December 2010 for undefined 'anti-party' activities.
In attempts to ostracise her, the president had continued to give roles that were previously held by her to Callista Mutharika who was included in the cabinet in September 2011.The court had blocked attempts by Bingu wa Mutharika to fire her as Vice-President on constitutional grounds.
This included attempts to seize her official government vehicle and to block her from registering her new party. On 8 September 2011, the role of Vice-President was left out in a cabinet reshuffle. However, she was still the legal Vice-President of the country as mandated by the constitution. She was urged by DPP spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba to resign as Vice-President.
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