Lower court judge elected to judicial watchdog
Magistrate Ali Shareef was elected to represent the trial courts.
25 Aug 2019, 9:00 AM
Judges and magistrates of the lower courts voted on Saturday to elect their representative to the Judicial Service Commission.
Ali Shareef, chief magistrate of the Laamu judicial district, won in a landslide with 127 votes (77 percent), according to provisional results from the Department of Judicial Administration. Ahmed Hailam, chief judge of the criminal court, came a distant second with 37 votes (22 percent) and Abdul Razzaq Mohamed, chief magistrate of Gaaf Dhaal Fiyoree, only received one vote.
The turnout was 94 percent with 167 out of 178 judges casting ballots. There were two invalid votes.
Polling stations were set up by the Elections Commission on one island in each of the 21 judicial districts.
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