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The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is a political party in Malawi. It was formed as a successor party to the banned Nyasaland African Congress when the country then known as Nyasaland was under British rule. The MCP under Hastings Banda presided over Malawian independence in 1964 and became dominant as Malawi became a single-party state. In 1997 the MCP lost political dominance but was not disbanded. At the 2009 elections it received approximately 30% of the national vote.