Opposition candidate secures Kuribee council seat after recount
A recount of votes from a ballot box on the island of Kuribee in Haa Dhaal atoll has changed the result and averted a second round of voting between three candidates tied in third place.
15 May 2017, 9:00 AM
A recount of votes from a ballot box on the island of Kuribee in Haa Dhaal atoll has changed the result and averted a second round of voting between three candidates tied in third place.
The recount took place Sunday night after a candidate from the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Elections Commission about a valid vote that was unfairly invalidated.
Mohamed Shafy won the third seat on the Kuribee island council after the vote was reportedly counted in his column. Before the recount, the EC was planning to have a second round of voting in Kuribee between the three candidates tied with 218 votes.
But provisional results now show that Shafy has been elected to the three-member council with 219 votes along two candidates from the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives.
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