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“Pro-China candidate Muizzu wins Maldives presidential election.” This was the headline carried by international news agencies after PPM-PNC’s candidate Dr. Mohamed Muizzu won the Maldives presidential election runoff on Saturday – beating MDP’s Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the incumbent president, by a margin of eight percent. The articles, with a reach of millions of readers, portrayed Muizzu as a “pro-China” leader. The news agencies