{"id":33491,"date":"2013-10-31T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ac149a439bc7160721df72677e2a0c49"},"modified":"2013-10-31T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:21:58","slug":"press-release-uk-concern-over-delays-to-maldives-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=33491","title":{"rendered":"Press release: UK concern over delays to Maldives Presidential elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire said:<\/p>\n

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The British Government remains deeply concerned about the continuing delays to Presidential elections in the Maldives and the legal challenges to the democratic process. These legal challenges increasingly appear to be aimed at preventing the people of the Maldives from having their say at the ballot box. It is imperative that the Presidential elections now take place as re-scheduled by the Maldives\u2019 Election Commission and that all candidates work to create conditions which are conducive to elections. We hope that the re-run of the first round of Presidential elections will be free, fair, inclusive and peaceful.<\/p>\n

The unacceptable delays to elections and reports of the intimidation of Parliamentarians, NGOs and media organisations have been closely watched by the international community. Further delays could result in greater damage to the Maldives\u2019 international reputation and could have a negative impact upon the Maldives\u2019 economy. The Maldivian people deserve the opportunity to choose the President of their nation in accordance with their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

Further information<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Follow Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire on twitter @HugoSwire<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow the Foreign Office on twitter @foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow the Foreign Office on facebook<\/a> and Google+<\/a><\/p>\n

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Media enquiries<\/h3>\n
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\n Email<\/span>
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\n Telephone<\/span>
\n 020 7008 3100\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FCO Minister of State Hugo Swire comments on the Maldives\u2019 Presidential elections and reports of intimidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}