And into this void steps Dr. Dalitso Kabambe, the presidential candidate for the United Transformation Movement (UTM) party, a man who presents himself as the nation’s technocratic saviour. His supporters point to his three-year tenure as Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) from 2017 to 2020 as proof of concept. While Dr. Kabambe and his supporters dismiss these charges as a politically motivated witch-hunt, the sheer detail of the audit makes it impossible to ignore. A Nation’s Desperate GambleA candidate as compromised as Dr. Kabambe should, in a healthy democracy, be a fringe figure. To elect Dr. Kabambe would be to hope that his technocratic brilliance is genuine and that, once in power, he would use it for the national good.