Maldives government launches media offensive on boat blast
Cabinet ministers and ruling party MPs have launched a media offensive, appearing on some six TV channels every week night. Slick messages extolling President Yameen’s virtues have begun appearing on social media with the hashtag #IStandWithYameen.
19 Oct 2015, 9:00 AM
Cabinet ministers and ruling party MPs have launched a media offensive stressing that the explosion on the president’s speedboat on September 28 was a “well planned” attempt to assassinate President Abdulla Yameen.
Ministers and MPs in pairs have made simultaneous appearances on six of the Maldives’ seven TV channels on Thursday and Sunday night, and are scheduled to do so tonight.
Gasim Ibrahim, the leader of the Jumhooree Party, a former coalition partner, is joining the campaign tonight. In an interview with the ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives’ (PPM) social media group Asurumaa today, he pledged to defend Yameen’s administration.
“I am ready to do everything necessary to defend this government, to do anything [President Yameen] requests of me,” he said.
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