Elections Commission set to announce results
MDP has taken a two-third majority of the 19th parliament.
07 Apr 2019, 9:00 AM
The Elections Commission is due to start announcing provisional results of the parliamentary elections on Sunday night.
The electoral body was planning to start announcing results ahead of schedule Sunday morning, EC member Ahmed Akram told the Maldives Independent, but “it isn’t late yet.”
Provisional results show a landslide victory for the Maldivian Democratic Party with more than a two-thirds majority of the 87-member house. Other parties trail far behind with fewer than seven seats each.
Akram said a total of 126 complaints were submitted to the national complaints bureau over Saturday’s poll. The commission has attended to 74 complaints and was looking into 54 complaints.
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