The main ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has revealed that there are no changes in the final results of the primary election.
At a press conference, Chair of MDP’s primary election oversight committee Ibrahim Waheed said there are no differences between the preliminary and final results, and no result-changing complaints were filed. He added that the primary election was held without incident.
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih won the primary election and secured the MDP presidential ticket in a landslide victory, beating Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed. President Solih won the primary election with 61%, which is 24,572 votes, while Speaker Nasheed received 39%, which is 15,631 votes.
MDP plans to award the presidential ticket to President Solih in mid-February. Meanwhile, Speaker Nasheed began work to form a special party branch after the primaries. Waheed said that MDP cannot change its presidential candidate and that forming a new branch does not mean that it is an attempt at opposing the candidate.