Campaign season is officially on! The Majlis recently waived the requirement to ban campaigning until the official start of campaign time. Above, you see the president signing the bill to remove the ban. Now everyone is campaigning. The country is going to try to have elections on August 23 before the fasting month of Ramadan in September. The two major parties are the DRP, led by President Gayoom, and the MDP, the largest opposition party. It is interesting to try and determine the platforms of these parties. The president denies that there are any problems in the country, and basically all the opposition will say is that they hate Gayoom. Other stories, such as where the parties get their money from, are hard to do, because disclosure of campaign finance information is optional until after the election. The press simply has to muddle through with what it has. There also has been some unrest in the president's cabinet. In the past week two of his ministers have resigned. One of them, the finance minister, is the richest man in Maldives, and is infamous for his attitude. He went so far as to disassociate him self from Gayoom's party. The other is the tourism minister. He was under investigation for something- we think- but he isn't talking and the government isn't either.
TVM is giving the political parties free airtime. Above is one of the messages from the Islamic Democratic Party.
Campaign season is officially on! The Majlis recently waived the requirement to ban campaigning until the official start of campaign time. Above, you see the president signing the bill to remove the ban. Now everyone is campaigning. The country is going to try to have elections on August 23 before the fasting month of Ramadan in September. The two major parties are the DRP, led by President Gayoom, and the MDP, the largest opposition party. It is interesting to try and determine the platforms of these parties. The president denies that there are any problems in the country, and basically all the opposition will say is that they hate Gayoom. Other stories, such as where the parties get their money from, are hard to do, because disclosure of campaign finance information is optional until after the election. The press simply has to muddle through with what it has. There also has been some unrest in the president's cabinet. In the past week two of his ministers have resigned. One of them, the finance minister, is the richest man in Maldives, and is infamous for his attitude. He went so far as to disassociate him self from Gayoom's party. The other is the tourism minister. He was under investigation for something- we think- but he isn't talking and the government isn't either. 
2 comments:
In Drew's Blog, he said:
"....have elections on August 23 before the fasting month of Ramadan in September. "
They fast for a whole month???Can they eat anything? A month is a long time. What is the deal with this?
Bill
They have to fast from sun up to sun down, but they can eat at night. from wat I can gather, they have a huge feast every night durring Ramazan.
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