Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 10/16/2013 - 07:50
Paper No. 5580 Dated 17-Oct-2010
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan.
Will anyone believe that the highest court in Maldives has met three times at midnight in the last three weeks to give executive directions to the Elections Commission in the conduct of the presidential elections?
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 10/12/2013 - 10:18
Paper No. 5578 Dated 11-Oct-2013
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan.
"We are a democracy on a ventilator- desperately gasping for life." Jeehan Golhu
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 10/08/2013 - 14:06
Paper No. 5576 Dated 8-Oct-2013
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan
After two postponements in the same day ( 7 September), the Supreme Court of Maldives, finally announced its verdict, annulling the first round of Presidential Elections.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 10/02/2013 - 09:15
Paper No. 5573 Dated 2-Oct-2013
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan
As expected, developments since the first round of elections that went off smoothly have been very disturbing. The Indian Foreign Minister rightly pointed out that India is “disappointed and distressed” over the situation.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 09/21/2013 - 11:13
:Paper No. 5567 Dated 21-Sep-2013
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan
When the initial results of the first round of elections were announced, it was assessed that former president Nasheed will have a tough time in garnering the balance votes to reach the 50 percent margin. The reason was that all the other candidates had literally "ganged up " to ensure the defeat of Nasheed.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 09/11/2013 - 10:57
Paper No. 5557 Date 11-Sep-2013
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan.
In his first response to the results of the first round of elections, Nasheed of MDP declared that the party has resumed the campaign activities to garner some “few thousand” additional votes to guarantee a win in the second round.
In another connection, the party members indicated that an additional 2 to 3 thousand votes would make the difference.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 09/08/2013 - 10:31
Paper No. 5555 Dated 8-Sep-2013
Dr. S.Chandrasekharan
Though the results of the Presidential Elections have not been formally announced, it is seen that Nasheed of the MDP obtained 95,224 votes out of 211850 votes polled. This comes to 45.45 percent and thus short of a fifty percent votes to prevent a runoff.
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