UK lawmakers visiting Maldives to ‘observe election arrangements’

Sir David Amess will be accompanied by Roger Godsiff, Amess’ office told the Maldives Independent.

Amess, who is chairman of the All-Party British-Maldives Parliamentary Group, has caused controversy with his previous visits to the island nation.

In 2016 the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party accused him and other UK MPs of “deliberately manipulating the facts” after Amess told local media in Malé that the Maldives had been portrayed in a “rather unfair fashion.”