Malawi's President-elect Peter Mutharika and Vice President-elect Jane Ansah will be sworn into office on Saturday, October 4, a senior official privy to the plans has said.

Mutharika, who previously served as the Southern African nation's fifth president from 2014 to 2020, made an emphatic return to the presidency following his victory in the September 16, 2025 presidential election.

The professor of law garnered 3 million votes (56.8%) against the incumbent President Lazarus Chakwera's nearly 1.8 million (33%).

Malawi's information ministry said on Tuesday that several African heads of state and government have been invited to the president-elect's swearing-in ceremony on Saturday.

Former presidents to attend oath-taking ceremony

Shadric Namalomba, Mutharika's spokesperson, confirmed to Malawi's Nation Online details of the planned event.

Mutharika, 85, and Ansah, 69, will take the oath of office at the Kamuzu Stadium in Malawi's southern city of Blantyre. The venue can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Malawian media report that the country's former presidents, Bakili Muluzi and Joyce Banda, have confirmed they will attend Mutharika's oath-taking.

During his previous six-year presidency (2014 to 2020), Mutharika was credited with improving Malawi's infrastructure and lowering inflation. His critics alleged that his administration entertained cronyism, but the law professor denied this.

Election pledges

This time around, he has pledged to stabilise Malawi's kwacha currency, restore integrity in public service, create one million jobs for the youth, invest in energy and infrastructure, strengthen the rule of law, fight corruption, improve food security, and make the civil service more efficient.