MDP to hold ‘national protest’ against corruption
14 Jul 2010, 4:15 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has announced it will conduct a special protest today to eliminate corruption and bring “justice and balance” to the Maldives.
Spokesperson for the MDP, Ibrahim Haleem, said the party called on the “whole nation to take part in this protest”, but did not encourage any more people living in the islands to come over to Male’.
”A lot of people from the islands have arrived Male’ to participate in this event,” said Haleem. ”We are expecting at least 10,000 to participate in this protest.”
Haleem said the protest was to “eliminate corruption and to establish justice in the country.”
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