The Maldives parliamentary elections are now scheduled to be held on April 21.
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Ballot boxes for the Maldives’ upcoming parliamentary elections will be located in India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, the Election Commission announced on Sunday after about 11,000 Maldivians submitted re-registration requests to move polling stations.
The six-day window for people to relocate their polling stations during the April 21 parliamentary elections expired on Saturday, media reported, citing an election commission notice.
The top electoral body said ballot boxes for the island nation’s elections will also be placed here after at least 150 people each re-registered to vote in the state’s capital Trivandrum, Colombo in Sri Lanka and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Three city states.
Portal adadhu.com quoted European Commission Secretary General Hassan Zakariyya as saying: “As before, enough people registered in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. As 150 people registered in Trivandrum, India , we decided to set up ballot boxes there.”
During the period, the apex poll body received 11,169 application forms seeking re-registration at different polling stations. It rejected 1,141 forms, bringing the total number of re-registrations to 10,028, the edition.mv news portal reported.
Zakaria noted that the number of people re-registering this year was lower compared with previous elections and said there would be no votes in Britain, the United Arab Emirates and Thailand.
The island nation’s parliamentary elections were due to be held on Sunday, but the official voting date was postponed due to an amendment to a bill banning elections during the month of Ramzan.
Parliamentary elections are now scheduled for April 21.
According to news portal sun.mv, a total of 389 candidates are vying for 93 parliamentary seats in the Maldives elections.
The largest number of candidates is the pro-India main opposition Maldives Democratic Party (MDP), which is contesting 90 seats, followed by the main ruling coalition Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) and the People’s National Congress (PNC). There are 89 seats running.
Maldives’ pro-China president Mohamed Muizou, who belongs to the People’s National Council, came to power last year on an anti-India stance.
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