Don’t jump ship, Maldives president urges party supporters
The Maldives president lost a recent election by more than 38,000 votes.
29 Sep 2018, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen urged supporters not to jump ship, local media reported, as he was elected the ruling party’s leader on Friday.
Yameen ran unopposed and the vote was taken by a show of hands at a closed-door, extraordinary congress of the Progressive Party of the Maldives.
The meeting followed his loss in last Sunday’s presidential election, which saw senior lawmaker and opposition candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih triumph by more than 38,000 votes.
Four vice presidents were elected at the congress. According to CNM, they are the President’s Office Legal Affairs Minister Azima Shukoor, MP Abdul Raheem Abdulla, Economic Minister Mohamed Saeed and Tourism Minister Moosa Zameer.
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