Last Updated: March 17, 2024, 23:52 IST
A Maldivian dwelling in Sri Lanka casts her vote in the course of the Maldives parliamentary election day on the Maldives embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ballot bins have been arrange in India’s Thiruvananthapuram, Colombo and Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur for the upcoming elections. (Image: Reuters File)
The six-day window for individuals to relocate their voting stations for the April 21 parliamentary elections expired on Saturday
The poll bins for Maldives’ upcoming parliamentary elections can be positioned in India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, after round 11,000 Maldivians submitted re-registration requests to relocate their polling stations, the nation’s election fee introduced on Sunday.
The six-day window for individuals to relocate their voting stations for the April 21 parliamentary elections expired on Saturday, media studies stated, citing an Elections Commission notification.
The high electoral physique stated that poll bins for the island nation’s elections will even be positioned in Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram), the capital of Kerala, Sri Lanka’s Colombo and Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur after no less than 150 individuals re-register to vote in every of the three international locations.
“As previously, enough people registered in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. And since 150 people had registered in Trivandrum, India, we have decided to set up a ballot box there,” internet portal adadhu.com quoted EC’s secretary-general Hassan Zakariyya as saying.
The high polls physique obtained 11,169 utility kinds requesting re-registration at totally different voting stations throughout this era. It rejected 1,141 kinds, taking the entire re-registrations to 10,028, the version.mv information portal reported. Pointing out that the quantity of people that re-registered this 12 months is low in contrast to previous elections, Zakariyya stated that voting won’t be held in the UK, UAE and Thailand.
The parliamentary elections in the island nation have been to happen on Sunday, nevertheless, the official polls date was postponed after an modification to an Act to chorus from conducting elections in the course of the month of Ramzan. The parliamentary elections are actually scheduled to be held on April 21.
A complete of 389 candidates are contesting for 93 parliamentary seats in Maldives’ elections, the solar.mv information portal stated. The highest variety of candidates are from the pro-India primary opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) which is contesting 90 seats, adopted by the principle ruling coalition of the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) and the People’s National Congress (PNC), which is contesting 89 seats.
Maldives pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu, who belongs to the PNC, rode to energy final 12 months on an anti-India stance.
