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Maldives kicks out China backed President Abdulla Yameen

Shubham Singh by Shubham Singh
September 24, 2018
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The voters of Maldives kicked out pro-China President, Abdulla Yameen, and elected the Maldivian opposition candidate-Ibrahim Mohamed Solih- as the next president of Maldives. Ousted leader, Abdulla Yameen is a notorious leader who jailed his political opponents and Supreme Court judges, suppressed democratic freedoms, introduced criminal defamation laws.

But, both the United States and European Union had threatened massive sanctions against Yameen in case his government found indulging in any sort of wrongdoing and rigging. The threats of sanctions forced Yameen’s government to ensure free and fair elections.

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President elect, Ibrahim Solih said, “The will of the people has spoken.” He further added, “For many of us it has been a difficult journey. A journey that led to a prison cell, or years in exile. It’s been a journey that led to the complete politicisation and breakdown of public institutions. But it’s been a journey that has ended in the ballot box, because the people willed it.”

Following election results, Ibrahim Solih said, “The message is loud and clear. The people of the Maldives want change, justice and stability.” With 92% votes counted, Mr Solih has 58.3% votes in his favor. He would be sworn as Maldives fourth President since the country transitioned to Democracy in 2008.

BREAKING:@ibusolih is the next President of Maldives. His lead is unassailable. Defeats President Abdulla Yameen. pic.twitter.com/qH41NpSidn

— Devirupa Mitra (@DevirupaM) September 23, 2018

Transparency Maldives, a local monitoring group maintained that according to early results Solih emerged victorious by a decisive margin. The group appealed, “We call on all stakeholders to maintain an environment conducive for a peaceful transfer of power.”

Former President Mohammed Nasheed congratulated President Elect Ibrahim Solih.

Congratulations to President Elect @ibusolih. You have done an extremely good service to not only to the people of Maldives, but also to freedom loving people everywhere. Democracy is a historical inevitability.

— Mohamed Nasheed (@MohamedNasheed) September 23, 2018

He also said, “People of the Maldives have taken back their country. They have decided to rebuild their democratic life. This is a vote for democracy and freedom. There is a lot of work to do… We want to see a smooth transition. Don’t want to see President Yameen back to his old tricks. No more Supreme Court, no more Marshall laws, no more emergency rule, no more suppression.”

India has been watching Maldives election very closely. India congratulated opposition coalition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih for winning the Presidential elections in Maldives.

#BREAKING: India congratulates opposition coalition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih for winning the Presidential polls in Maldives. New Delhi hopes the Election Commission will officially confirm the result at the earliest. ‘Election a triumph of democratic forces in Maldives.’ pic.twitter.com/8R42Ok2gGn

— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) September 24, 2018

Relations between India and Maldives have been frosty for some times owing largely to the pro-China president Abdulla Yameen. Ousted President has become a Chinese puppet. Speaking at a thought conclave, exiled President Mohammed Naseer was bold enough to state China was buying up the Maldives. He also highlighted the fact that a small nation like Maldives was massively in debt to China, and faced seizure of ports and other assets of the country to pay back the debt.  China had even sent warship to Maldives in order to intimidate it. Maldives has been declared as a stop in China’s One Road One Belt initiative. China even backed Abdulla Yameen during this year’s crisis. In order to fulfill interest of Chinese, Yameen canceled the contract of major Indian company, GMR, for the development and modernization of Male airport and handed over it to China in 2015. He made many constitutional amendments to serve the interest of Chinese. He signed Free Trade agreement with China in many sectors. He even altered laws to provide Chinese ownership of Maldivian islands.  

 It’s good to see that nation has finally kicked out a Chinese backed puppet President.

Democratic forces at play in Maldieves. Another puppet regime in d region falls: https://t.co/rS4MGe6hRv

— Ram Madhav (@rammadhavbjp) September 24, 2018

People throwing Chinese backed government out of power has become a trend recently. Myanmar did it in 2015, Sri Lanka in 2015, Malaysia in 2018, and Maldives in 2018 and hopefully Nepal would also follow the same pattern. Maldivian elections are reminiscent to the Sri Lankan elections where pro-China Mahindra Rajapaksa was ousted by a joint opposition candidate. Exit of Yameen from power is likely to bring Maldives closer to India.

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