Muizzu: Pro-China engineer sweeps Maldives election

Male, Maldives (AFP) April 22, 2024

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu is a strong advocate of Chinese investment and his party's landslide parliamentary election victory will help him deliver on a promise to return the atoll nation to Beijing's orbit. The 45-year-old's People's National Congress decimated its pro-Indian rival to secure an iron-clad two-thirds majority at Sunday's polls for the 93-member assembly. A British