15 Minutes with Mohamed Latheef, Spokesperson for the MDP
28 Jan 2005, 21:43
Minivan News
Minivan News spends 15 Minutes with Mohamed Latheef, spokesperson for the Maldivian Democratic Party.
Q1: There is confusion over the number of seats won by the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), the government and those who are independent in this election. Can you clarify what the MDP’s position is on this?
Eighteen of the 36 candidates we backed some three weeks before the election won their seats. Some of them are government servants. We backed them because we believe that when the political climate changes, as we believe it will, their candidacy will openly espouse the liberal democratic reformist ideology that the MDP propagates.
Q2: So are they all signed-up, card-carrying members of the party?
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