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.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 08/30/2013 - 10:46
Paper No. 5552 Dated 30-Aug-2013
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan.
The Election Commission has finally announced the final list of eligible voters and this comes to a figure of 239, 593. Though a few are still left out, most of the names that were sought to be included have been accommodated.
The second round (if necessitated) of presidential elections will take place on October 28 and the new president will be taking over on November 11.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 10:17
Paper No. 5520 Dated 3-July-2013
Dr. S.Chandrasekharan
The GMR Deal:
On 17th of June and three years after the case was filed, the Anti Corruption Commission of Maldives concluded that no corruption was involved in the bid evaluation phase of the GMR deal of the international airport at Male.
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