Nasheed and Gasim targeted in presidential ‘asylum ban’
Mohamed Nasheed and Gasim Ibrahim have both sought asylum overseas. Both have said they want to run for office.
26 Jun 2018, 9:00 AM
People who have sought asylum overseas should be barred from running for president, a ruling party lawmaker told the Maldives parliament Tuesday.
The country is due to go the polls in late September but opposition leaders are either in exile or behind bars, including former president Mohamed Nasheed who has sought asylum in the UK and Jumhooree Party chief Gasim Ibrahim who has sought asylum in Germany.
Both men have expressed a desire to contest the elections and both are already barred from running. Nasheed has a 13-year prison sentence on controversial terror charges while Gasim has a three-year term for bribery.
Parliament heard MP Nihan Hassan Manik criticise those who had sought asylum overseas and were seeking the highest office in the country.
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