Perhaps most importantly, there is the clash between world views, where on the one hand, there is the democratic and progressive trend embodied in the venerable and still extant tradition of Arab liberalism, and on the other hand,the bloody and violent current represented by far too many of the region's seminal figures."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Peter Mutharika is the presidential candidate of the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in elections due next year.

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To seal the strained relations between the two former political buddies, Mr Mutharika quit the UDF and founded his own Democratic Progressive Party.

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Mutharika was elected under the former president's United Democratic Front Party in 2004, but left it soon after and formed the Democratic Progressive Party.

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