Sameer Suleman

Sameer Suleman is the Speaker of Malawi’s National Assembly for the 2025 to 2030 Parliament. The Speaker chairs debates and keeps order in the House. He was elected in October 2025, beating Peter Dimba in the vote.

He was first elected in 2019, for Blantyre City South East, for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In opposition he chaired Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Food Security and was an outspoken critic of the Affordable Inputs Programme, the fertiliser subsidy, calling in 2024 for Agriculture Minister Sam Kawale to resign.

In January 2025 he was granted bail on a charge of criminal defamation over social media posts about senior MCP politicians.

Sameer Suleman is the Member of Parliament for Blantyre City Chigumula BCA-Club Banana constituency in Blantyre district (Blantyre City), in Malawi’s Southern Region. He sits as a member of the DPP. In the 16 September 2025 general election Suleman won the seat with 22,484 votes (86.8% of valid votes), ahead of Wild James Ndipo (Independent) with 2,195. 4 candidates stood.