President of the Maldives Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan has told the UK’s Financial Times (FT) newspaper that he would not resign as this would require him to hand power to the Speaker of Parliament, Dr Abdulla Shahid, “who got elected with just 2,000 votes”.
Dr Waheed’s own Gaumee Ithihaad Party (GIP) received 518 votes in the 2009 Parliamentary Election, and had 2625 members as of February 27.
“For me it would be easy to leave the country and go but I wouldn’t do that,” Dr Waheed told the FT. “[Voters] elected me with an expectation that if a situation like this arose, I would be there to help manage it. I feel responsible that I need to do that.”
Resigning and holding early elections would be “reckless and undemocratic”, Waheed said: “It would be irresponsible of me.”
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well done, Ruder Finn, good trick, you are good for 150.000 pounds per month
next to that : its all talks and talks, to delay getting back democracy, elections, elected government, and so on
i call for contracoup, and work on 🙂
'reckless and undemocratic' oh boy!
Guess in his books the democratic way is to hold onto it even if it was brought from a military coup.