Eurita Valeta

Eurita Ntiza Valeta is a Malawian politician who represented the Nsanje South West constituency from 2019.

Career In 2019 Valeta was one of three women who took parliamentary seats in the Nsanje District which is the most southern region in Malawi. Valeta won the South West Nsanje constituency with nearly 13,000 votes, which was twice that of the second candidate. This was seen as a victory because of a nationwide target to achieve a 50:50 representation for women in parliament. This was achieved in the Nsanje District because there were five constituencies, and 60% of them were represented by women. Bulema took her case to the high court, asking for a re-run that excluded Valeta. The court ruled that Bulema had failed to provide sufficient evidence.

In 2021 Valeta contacted the Ministry of Education regarding the poor state of Nsanje Secondary School. The school required repairs to windows and floors. Hostels lacked electricity and the headteacher said that the toilet and washing facilities were affected because they could not afford to pay the water company.

In 2024, she was Deputy Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Health and she made headlines when she was talking about teenage pregnancies. Some of these arrive from richer older men paying poor young girls to have sex. These men are known as "blessers" and she had suggested that a successful campaign needed to educate men about the harm that they were causing.

Valeta stood again for the same constituency taking on seven opponents who were this time all men in the 2025 election. She was facing name calling and she had been warned off using one location. However she acknowledged the help she was getting from organisations supporting women candidates including from Oxfam's Lingalireni Mihowa. She remembered having to fund items in the 2019 election herself and they were now covered.