The ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) conducted internal elections yesterday for party posts.
A total of 455 candidates contested for posts in 77 constituencies, including a president and secretary for each voting district.
For constituencies with an MDP MP in parliament, elections took place for vice-president, secretary, assistant secretary and planning secretary.
With 250 ballot boxes in over a 100 islands, the party claims it was the largest election in the country to date.
Official results will be announced in three days.
Meanwhile, provisional results show that a number of senior government officials, notably State Ministers Ahmed Adhil and Ahmed Inaz and the Fisheries Ministry’s Food Security Coordinator Mohamed “OK” Zahir, lost out.
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