PPM wins Dhiggaru by-election
06 Jun 2015, 8:10 PM
Zaheena Rasheed
Reporting by Hassan Mohamed and Ismail Humam Hamid
The ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) has won the parliamentary by-election for the Dhiggaru constituency with 59.4 percent of the vote.
PPM candidate Ahmed Faris Maumoon won some 1238 votes, while the main opposition party Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) candidate Ahmed Raazee won 763 votes, according to preliminary results published by the Elections Comission (EC).
EC figures show some 2,084 of the 2,555 eligible voters cast their votes in today’s polls.
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