No police within 100 feet of ballot boxes, confirms elections commissioner
01 Jul 2013, 5:41 PM
Leah Malone
Additional reporting by Mohamed Naahii and Ahmed Naish
With two months remaining before the Maldives’ second multi-party presidential elections, former President Mohamed Nasheed, the current Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) presidential candidate, has alleged that police are plotting to ruin the polls under instruction from Police Commissioner Abdulla Riyaz.
Nasheed, who won the Maldives’ first democratic election in 2008, made the allegations during an MDP rally held in the Galolhu ward of Male’ on Sunday night (June 29).
Attempts to influence the polls by the Maldives Police Service (MPS) were one among “a few concerns”, said Nasheed.
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