A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Moosa Manik (L) shakes hands with President Abdulla Yameen after signing into PPM. FILE PHOTO/MIHAARU The opposition coalition would fail in bringing a single candidate to defeat President Abdulla Yameen in this year’s Presidential Elections as they have too many internal conflicts, declared the former chairperson of main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), Moosa Manik, […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Avas.mv website on 26th December 2017. The following is a loose translation: On President Abdulla Yameen’s current campaign trips to atolls, referring to the opposition coalition, he says as follows. ‘They are coconuts which cannot be identified from which type of tree it came from and just a […]
Members of Adhaalath Party at a rally of Maldives United Opposition. PHOTO/ADHAALATH PARTY Religiously conservative Adhaalath Party has revealed that it will back a coalition government that shares its beliefs in the upcoming presidential election slated for 2018. Adhaalath Party released a statement on Friday night stating that it would fully support a coalition that […]
Adhaalath Party’s leader Sheikh Imran being escorted by Maldives Correctional Service (MCS) officers after being transferred to temporary house arrest. MIHAARU PHOTO / NISHAN ALI Religiously conservative Adhaalath Party’s leader Sheikh Imran Abdulla on Thursday night was transferred from Maafushi Prison to temporary house arrest. Sheikh Imran was transferred to house arrest earlier this year […]
Senior figures of the Y-faction of PPM in Tuesday’s press conference — Photo by: Shahubaan Fahumee The breakaway Y-faction of ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) has threatened legal action if the Party’s name is not removed from the statement issued by opposition parties condemning the en masse suspension of lawyers. The statement was […]