Malawi: President suspends parliament as feud stalls budget

Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has suspended parliament until opposition legislators give him guarantees that they will adopt the 2008/09 budget, stalled over a political feud. The opposition alliance of United Democratic Front (UDF) and Malawi Congress Party say that under the constitution, wa Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party should lose 60 legislators they accuse him of poaching when he quit the UDF.