Chapter 351: Coup d'état
In the Malawian presidential palace, Mark Kazunga was half-seated and half-lying, most of his body sunk into the soft and comfortable sofa, paralyzed like a cartilaginous animal, his expression was sluggish, his face was gloomy, his eyes were hollow, and the thick beard on his chin had not been trimmed for several days, which was slightly disheveled.
"Your Excellency, the reporter is out the door." The elderly servant walked up to Mark Kazunga and brought him a cup of coffee and a cup of traditional Malawian drink to quench his thirst.
Mark Kazunga's dazed eyes were in focus again, and he looked at the servant's thin face, and suddenly felt pathetic and ridiculous.
Five days ago, when Mark Kaconga met with representatives of charities from various countries at the presidential palace, he was still full of ambition, but in an instant, everything changed.
On the evening after the press conference, Mark Kazunga received bad news from the Temple: the Holy Family would surrender unconditionally, and within three days, all the Temple's owners would be evacuated from Malawi and go to distant Outer Mongolia to establish their own state.
The People's Progressive Movement (MPM) is a small, shallow party that was able to overthrow the former ruling party with lightning bolts thanks to the help of the Temple, and the first priority for Mark Kaconga after taking office was to purge the system and sweep away all potential opposition so that the MPMP could truly gain a foothold and become the dominant party in Malawi.
But Mark Kazunga did not do this, not because he was stupid and naïve, but because he thought that doing so would be no different from the dictatorship of the former president, and Mark Kazunga did not want his precious granddaughter Muta Kazunga's spirit in heaven to see himself like that a butcher with bloody hands on his hands.
Moreover, Malawi's national strength has become weak, and most of the educated and capable domestic talents choose to go abroad to work and work for themselves for a bright future and a better future, rather than declining with this degenerate and decaying motherland. There is so much loss of local talent that many of the junior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are illiterate, if Mark Kazunga comes to another round of bloody purges, he will face the dilemma of no one available, do not try to bring in administrative talents from other countries to help run the country, it is now the twenty-first century, only a fool with a brain in vodka will do that, and a fool cannot be the leader of the country.
That's why Mark Kazunga has taken a lenient approach to most of the former ruling party members, and he wants to influence them with his charisma, so that they feel that they are in the right and righteous direction, and that they will sincerely serve themselves and dedicate themselves to Malawi. In any case, the background of the People's Progressive Movement Party is the Temple, and with the powerful Holy Family as its umbrella, Mark Kazunga is fearless, and even if there are opponents who try to harm him and undermine the great cause of Malawi's rise, the Temple will definitely not let those petty people do evil.
Mark Kazunga's thinking is not wrong, in fact, many people have begun to be influenced by Mark Kazunga, if the temple can continue to be the treasury of Malawi, the umbrella of the People's Progressive Movement Party, then Mark Kazunga's decision is correct, and the people of Malawi will worship him as a saint in a few decades.
However, the umbrella of the temple did not provide long-term protection for Malawi, and after the full surrender, all the temple owners must be evacuated within three days, which means that all the Holy Families and faithful believers who are willing to follow the Holy Family to the desert to establish a state will leave Malawi within 72 hours.
Without the help of the Temple, the People's Progressive Movement (PPM) is like a child guarding a treasure but losing a machine gun, powerless to resist in the face of a few adult men who are looking at each other with unkind looks.
Mark Kazunga had no intention of resisting, he knew very well that with the help of the Holy Family, he could overthrow the regime of the former ruling party at an alarming speed, and after losing the umbrella, his regime would be overthrown at an even faster speed, which was inevitable, and no one could reverse the situation.
There is a Chinese idiom called "the tree falls and the tree scatters", and Mark Kazunga has witnessed this process with his own eyes. After a high-profile armistice signed between Huang Kaijing, a messenger of peace from China, and a cardinal archbishop of the Templar – ironically a term that had been fought between the two sides but never really fought – word spread quickly, and everyone knew that from the moment the agreement was signed, the Temple was not allowed to harm any human being for any reason and not interfere in Malawi's internal affairs in any way.
The idiots also know what this means, which means that the careerists who salivate over the presidency finally have a chance, a new coup d'état is imminent, and the People's Progressive Movement party will be the first victim in this storm, and the weak and powerless will be torn to shreds by the ferocious wolves, jackals, tigers and leopards.
Overnight, not only did the remnants of the ruling party resurge, but even the descendants of the People's Progressive Movement (PPM) betrayed Mark Kazunga out of fear, either switching to another party or signing an agreement to move with his family to Outer Mongolia. Mark Kazunga couldn't do anything about it, after all, even the army was not really in his hands.
In this sense, he is indeed a failed leader, preoccupied with how to make the country stronger and how to make the people's lives happier, but forgetting to ensure that he controls power.
Before the temple was evacuated, the cardinal archbishop of the diocese of Malawi offered a good price, because the temple could use Mark Kazunga's administrative skills, so if Mark Kazunga was willing to leave with the temple, then he, his family, and even his servants would be able to undergo the conversion ceremony and become a noble family.
This is indeed a generous condition, but Mark Kaconga did not accept it, he is too old, and he has lived enough, his only wish is to see the prosperity of the motherland, and the peace and contentment of his compatriots, since this wish cannot be realized, then he would rather stay in his hometown and wait quietly for death, and then be buried in the same land with his beloved granddaughter, rather than go all the way to the desert of Outer Mongolia to continue to live as a non-human person.
Mark Kazunga declined the Templars' invitation, but his children and relatives did not hesitate to leave their homeland with the mutants, because to stay was to die, and the demons who were purging them would not let them die too happily.
No one even said hello to Mark Kaconga when he left, and the entire family abandoned him, after all, it was he who rejected the invitation of the Holy Family, which made everyone lose the precious opportunity to become a Holy Family, and if they wanted to integrate into the Holy Family's country as a human being, their lives might not be satisfactory.