Male, Maldives: Former President Mohammed Nasheed with nearly 48.5 per cent of votes was trailing his rival Abdullah Yameen with 51.5 per cent of votes in the controversy-ridden presidential run-off in the Maldives today, according to initial trends in the media.
With nearly 140 of the total of 475 ballot boxes counted so far, Progressive Party of Maldives leader Yameen, the half-brother of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, had bagged 21,573 votes (51.5 per cent) as compared to Maldivian Democratic Party candidate Nasheed, who got 20,499 (48.5 per cent), the media reported.
Nasheed, who won the first multi-party elections in 2008 and ended the 30-year autocratic rule of Gayoom, had resigned under duress in a controversial transfer of power in February 2012.
Elections Commission chief Fuwad Thowfeek today said preliminary results will be announced by midnight while a formal announcement of the final outcome will be made tomorrow.
Voters queued up outside polling stations as voting began at 7.30 am across the Maldives for the second round of the much delayed election to choose a new president amidst a constitutional crisis.
In a crucial re-vote on November 9, Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) chief Nasheed bagged 46.4 per cent of the votes, a marginal increase from his previous tally of 45.45 per cent votes in the September 7 polls that were annulled by the Supreme Court.
With nearly 140 of the total of 475 ballot boxes counted so far, Progressive Party of Maldives leader Yameen, the half-brother of former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, had bagged 21,573 votes (51.5 per cent) as compared to Maldivian Democratic Party candidate Nasheed, who got 20,499 (48.5 per cent), the media reported.
Nasheed, who won the first multi-party elections in 2008 and ended the 30-year autocratic rule of Gayoom, had resigned under duress in a controversial transfer of power in February 2012.
Elections Commission chief Fuwad Thowfeek today said preliminary results will be announced by midnight while a formal announcement of the final outcome will be made tomorrow.
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Voters queued up outside polling stations as voting began at 7.30 am across the Maldives for the second round of the much delayed election to choose a new president amidst a constitutional crisis.
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In a crucial re-vote on November 9, Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) chief Nasheed bagged 46.4 per cent of the votes, a marginal increase from his previous tally of 45.45 per cent votes in the September 7 polls that were annulled by the Supreme Court.
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