Primaries are being held for ten Malé City council seats, 16 atoll and 38 island council seats, the MP said. Candidates have been selected for some...
Local council elections will be held on April 8, the elections commission has announced. It also set a new deadline for candidacy papers allowing President Abdulla...
The PPM did not make any nominations when the extended deadline expired on December 1.
The civil court ordered the elections commission to postpone January’s local council elections, citing the ruling party's inability to prepare for polls in the wake of...
Faris Maumoon discusses plans to weaken his uncle, President Abdulla Yameen's stranglehold on power, and shares his take on where it all went wrong, his father's...
Two MPs have abandoned the Gayoom faction and returned to Yameen's fold, just a day after condemning the president for cracking down on his opponents' businesses.
Gayoom is petitioning the civil court asking it to invalidate Yameen’s usurpation of the authority of the party’s elected leader.
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has hit back at an appeal by President Abdulla Yameen at a public rally, urging the former president to unite and guide the...
State employees said they were threatened with dismissal and salary reductions for failure to attend the rally, while people who travelled to Malé from the Maldives’...
Used motor oil was thrown on the gates to the PPM headquarters at Thema, days after the building was ransacked and insulting graffiti was found on...
Gasim Ibrahim has thrown his support behind former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, declaring the 78-year-old to be the rightful leader of the divided ruling Progressive Party...
Yameen’s supporters have cleaned out the PPM headquarters with police’s help, removing computers, documents, and furniture on Friday, and finally stripped the party’s nameplate from its...
Eight ruling coalition MPs have formed a breakaway group in the People’s Majlis in what may be the first credible threat to President Abdulla Yameen’s majority...
The Maldives United Opposition has invited former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom to join it after he sought meetings with leaders of the Maldives’ minor parties amid...
“This is the real PPM. I am repeatedly telling you that those behind President Yameen is the real PPM,” MP Abdul Raheem Abdulla has declared
Excerpts of Gayoom's press conference, in which he defied a civil court order that stripped him of control of the ruling party and ruled out reconciliation...
The civil court has stripped former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of control of the Progressive Party of the Maldives, and installed his half-brother and incumbent president,...
