Today morning at Dhurbaruge, the oath taking ceremony took place.  President Mohamed Nasheed Taking Oath Pictures Courtesy TV Maldives. President Nasheed is the first President who got elected democratically. The first round of elections were held on October 8th 2008 in which none of the candidates got the majority. The runoff elections were held on the 28th of October 2008 in which Mohamed Nasheed was elected.

Running mate Mohamed Waheed Hassan taking Oath

President of Sri Lanka and Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari also attended the function

Some Minister of President Mohamed Nasheed’s Cabinet

I could not see the out going President in the ceremony.

The new President of Maldives President Elect Mohamed Nasheed will be officially start at the Presidential office on the 11th of November 2008. He has decided not to stay at the Presidential Palace, Theemuge, as he had promised to convert that to an University. New cabinet ministers are announced.

There are also rumours that New Maldives team , Dr. Hassan Saeed has quit the MDP led Alliance due to differences over the forming of President elect ‘s cabinet.

The existing President, Gayoom is preparing to leave the office. He is meeting all the top authorities and thanking them for the support they had provided during his term. Yesterday, he even met the Indian High commissioner and the Bangladesh High Commissioner. The transition work is going smooth and is expected to completed as the new Government will be formed on the 11th November.

The citizens of Maldives has very high expectation from the new President. Hope to see some changes very soon.

Mohamed Nasheed popularly known as Anni has been elected as the Next President of Maldives. He has bagged 54.04% of votes as per the provisional results of the Runoff Elections in Maldives.

The runoff elections of the 2008 presidential elections were contested between Dhivehi Rahyithunge Party (DRP) presidential candidate Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) presidential candidate Mohamed Nasheed (Anni). Atolls Minister Ahmed Thasmeen Ali contested the runoff as the running mate of DRP’s candidate. Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik, chairperson of the Maldives National Congress, contested the runoff elections as the running mate of MDP coalition’s candidate.

The election results shows that the people of Maldives were desperately looking for a new President. MDP was backed by all the other contestant who had contested for the first phase of elections.

Live Update of the Election Results – This page will be updated frequently- Please come back, or you can follow me on Twitter 

Please note that these are un-official results

Update : 2008-10-29 09:19:33

Update : 2008-10-29 07:34:48

Update 2008-10-29 07:05:48

Update : 2008-10-29 06:47:37

Total Votes : 163,159 – 376 of 403 opened

Update : 2008-10-29 00:01:28

Update 2008-10-28 23:53:15

Update : 2008-10-28 23:43:51

Today the final and crucial election for the President of Maldives has started at 09.00am and will go till 08.30pm. The contestants are the President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party, DRP, Mohamed Nasheed, Anni of the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party, MDP.

The counting of votes will start as soon as the voting is over. The first phase of elections was on the 8th of October in which none of the candidates got the 50% mark and so the run off elections were called.

I will be posting live updates on elections, so follow me on Twitter

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Today is the last day for the Campaign for the Presidential Polls in Maldives. This is a much awaited historical event for Maldives as this is the first ever multi-party elections in Maldives.

In the first round of elections none of the candidates got more than 51% votes, so this has gone to a Run Off elections. The candidates for the Run-Off Elections are Existing President, Gayoom from DRP and Mohammed Nashid (Anni) of MDP. In the last elections results where showing President Gayoom as the most popular candidate and Anni as the second one. Hopefully the results should be out by the afternoon of 29th October.

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I was just moving around today as its Friday and Off day for me and took some pictures of the campaigning for the Presidential elections in Maldives. The elections are to happen on the 28th October, just 4 days left. The campaigning is at the peak, you will find interviews, press releases, allegations, going on VTV and DhiTV.

This is the final Run Off elections for the President of Maldives and is very crucial.

MDP campaigning, vehicles and large number of Maldivian citizens are spending lots of time and money for this election, which is the first multi-party election in the history of Maldives.

At Orchid Magu in Male’

Something interesting, I could not understand what is written, but I can see the picture of Sai Baba, a worshiped God for Indians. If somebody can translate this, it would be appreciated.

I will be updating the Election Results as soon as the counting starts on twitter, so follow me on Twitter.

Both the candidates contesting for the Maldives Presidential Election are busy with election campaigns. Every night we can find some experts talking about their candidate and lots of supporters participating the campaign meetings. Campaigns are telecasted live on the television. In VTV, we usually find campaigns meeting of Anni.

The Run Off Elections will be held on the 28th October 2008. The candidates are the Existing President, Gayoom and Mohamed Nashid (Anni).

The run off elections in Maldives has been changed to October 28th from October 29th as the O Level examinations are to be held on 29th. The schools are used for the elections so it will be difficult to organize the election when the exams are going on.

The Election Commission informed that the runoff presidential elections will be held on the Tuesday 28 October 2008 from 9am and 8pm.