Campaign trail: thief, thief, thief

Daily roundup of news from the campaign trail.

30 Aug 2018, 9:00 AM

A daily roundup of headlines made by the candidates, running mates and their surrogates on the campaign trail.

August 29

They tried to perpetrate biggest coup on May Day: Shaheem (Avas)

On May Day they planned to perpetrate biggest coup: Dr Shaheem (PSM)

President Yameen knows philosophy of rule of law: Shaheem (Mihaaru)

Ihavandhoo celebrates getting scan machine (PSM)

Nihan to opposition: is calling thief good ethics? (Mihaaru)

The only thing opposition is doing is calling thief (Avas)

Action will be taken against defamation of government officials (PSM)

They’re calling thief without evidence, a day will come when they will be questioned: Nihan (Sun)

What President Yameen said was about developing, not stealing: Nihan (Raajje)

Campaigning in Laamu atoll, the president’s running mate Dr Mohamed Shaheem accused the opposition of plotting a to remove the president from office with the mass anti-government protest on May 1, 2015, calling it the biggest coup attempt in Maldivian history. The country would have been “lost” if it had succeeded, he said.

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