The Democrats has decided not to support any presidential candidate after they refused to accept the party's conditions for forming a coalition.
The most significant proposal The Democrats made was to hold a referendum on changing the governance to a parliamentary system before the second round of the presidential election. However, both candidates preferred to take the vote after the election.
The second round of the presidential election is scheduled to be held on September 30 after none of the candidates received 50% of the votes to win in the first round. The two candidates who moved on to the second round are Dr. Mohamed Muizzu, the candidate of the opposition People's National Congress (PNC), and President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the candidate of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP). Muizzu led the first round of the election with 46% of the votes with President Solih in second with 39%. The third most popular candidate was Ilyas Labeeb, the candidate of The Democrats, who received 7%.