{"id":16100,"date":"2018-09-23T23:23:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T23:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16100"},"modified":"2018-09-23T23:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T23:23:36","slug":"a-test-of-democracy-in-the-maldives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16100","title":{"rendered":"A test of democracy in the Maldives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"86\">\n<p><span>They are more than 1,000 coral islands\u00a0<span>scattered across the Indian Ocean.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They are the Maldives &#8211; loved by tourists from all over the world for their beaches, blue lagoons and tropical reefs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>About 250,000 a voters cast ballots for their next leader on Sunday. But the presidential election has been no paradise for the opposition. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rivals to President Abdullah Yameen have been jailed or exiled. Critics say he&#8217;s become an absolute ruler, cementing his power by oppression. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>International observers boycotted his re-election bid, saying it was neither free nor fair. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What does the future hold for Maldivians?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Hoda Abdel Hamid<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><strong>Guests<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Jeffrey Salim Waheed &#8211; Deputy Permanent Representative in Geneva for the Republic of Maldives<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span> Ahmed Naseem &#8211; Maldivian Opposition Leader, Former Foreign Minister <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Bharath Gopalaswamy -Director, South Asia Center, Atlantic Council<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are more than 1,000 coral islands\u00a0scattered across the Indian Ocean. They are the Maldives &#8211; loved by tourists from all over the world for their beaches, blue lagoons and tropical reefs. About 250,000 a voters cast ballots for their next leader on Sunday. But the presidential election has been no paradise for the opposition.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}