'Merging elections a strategy to secure re-election'

12 hours ago

Main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP)’s former chairperson Fayyaz Ismail has attributed the government’s efforts to amend the constitution to merge the main two elections in the Maldives – the presidential and the parliamentary – as a backhanded strategy to secure a second term through the “backdoor”. Under the current system, voters go to polls twice within around six months every