“President Yameen’s administration will fall in a coup,” says Nasheed
16 Jun 2014, 8:01 PM
Zaheena Rasheed
The presidential system of government in the Maldives is unstable and will result in more coup d’états, former President and opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed has said.
“The presidential system in the Maldives has not brought about a secure government. There is no doubt of coups in the Maldives. President [Abdulla] Yameen’s administration will fall in a coup. It will be overthrown,” he told Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) supporters at a rally in Malé on Sunday.
Nasheed, the first democratically elected leader in the Maldives, claims he was ousted in a coup just three years into his term in February 2012.
However, a Commonwealth backed Commission of National Inquiry (CONI) called the transfer of power “legal and constitutional.”
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