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January 30, 2023

Maldives' Mohamed Nasheed Refuses to Concede Primary Election Defeat, Claiming Fraud
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In the Maldives, former President Mohamed Nasheed has been defeated in
his primary election challenge to incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed
Solih. Elections officials say Solih won with 61% of the vote, though
Nasheed has alleged fraud and has so far refused to concede defeat.
Mohamed Nasheed is a longtime climate advocate who in 2008 was elected
president in the first multiparty election held in the Maldives, a
low-lying island nation in the Indian Ocean. After he was overthrown in
a 2012 coup d'état, Nasheed survived imprisonment and exile, before his
return to the Maldives in 2018, where he now serves as speaker of the
Parliament.


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