Supreme Court annuls first round of presidential elections
08 Oct 2013, 2:46 AM
Additional reporting by Mohamed Naahii, Neil Merrett and Zaheena Rasheed
Read the verdict (Dhivehi)
The Supreme Court has annulled the first round of the 2013 presidential elections citing electoral irregularities, despite unanimous positive assessment of the polling by more than a thousand local and international election observers.
The 4:3 verdict cited a confidential police report submitted to the court allegedly claiming that 5600 votes were ineligible. The report has not been made public and was not shown to the Election Commission’s defence lawyers.
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