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It appears that Gayoom has take over the Govt through the backdoor.
It is obvious that he cannot win upfront in a democratic manner!
It is obvious that he cannot win upfront in a democratic manner!
No stability yet in Maldives
The spectre of unrest loomed over Male after supporters of deposed President Mohamed Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) took to the streets on Sunday after the police allegedly picked up four MPs of the party.
This happened a few moments after new President Waheed Hassan appointed seven members to his cabinet. MDP workers demonstrated outside Majlis (the Maldivian Parliament), forcing the riot police to push back angry protesters waving banners and shouting slogans against the new dispensation.
The high drama on the cobbled road outside Majlis, barely 100 metres from the President's Office and the Indian high commission, preceded President Hassan's induction of seven members into his Cabinet, including the country's first woman attorney general Azima Shakooru. She is known to be a loyalist of former dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
Another Gayoom loyalist, Mohammed Hussein Sharif alias Mundu Sharif, was made minister for youth affairs and sports. Several key portfolios, including that of the Vice-President, foreign affairs and finance, were kept vacant. Waheed's opponents see this as a ploy to break his predecessor's party and lure members with the high-demand portfolios. The protesters outside Majlis alleged that Waheed's government was pushing the archipelago nation to the dark days of dictator Gayoom.
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http://news.in.msn.com/exclusives/it/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5842774
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