President Waheed will not stand for re-election: PPM VP Umar Naseer
05 May 2012, 3:18 PM
Neil Merrett
Vice President of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM), Umar Naseer, has said the government faces “no international pressure” to hold early elections and will remain in power until 2013.
Naseer also emphasised that he does not expect President Mohamed Waheed Hassan to stand for election during presidential polls scheduled for next year.
PPM deputy Naseer told Minivan News today that beyond a few “powerful” members in the Commonwealth, the present coalition government, in which his party is represented, faced no international pressure to hold fresh polls this year.
The comments were made after former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom also claimed this week that international calls for early elections to be held in the Maldives have grown “faint” and were “not an issue” to foreign dignitaries he had met recently.
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