Election day processes transparent and well-administered: Transparency Maldives

Transparency Maldives has said that the election day processes of the Parliamentary Election held yesterday (Saturday) were transparent, and generally well-administered.

This came in a preliminary statement issued by the organisation following the election.

Transparency Maldives said that the voter registry was overall clean, with only few cases where people were not able to vote because their names were not on the voter registry or their details did not match.

The organisation noted that police entered 12.35 percent of polling stations, but in 100 percent of such cases, interventions occurred at the invitation of the Presiding Officer as the rules allow.

The statement reads, “Candidates were well-represented during the counting, making the process transparent and adding to its credibility. Maldivian Democratic Party was represented at 89.4% of polling stations during the vote count. Coalition parties were represented at 88.8% of polling stations during the vote count. Only 5.9% of polling stations did not have a party/candidate observer present at the opening of the polls.”