President Solih engages in important discussions with Speaker Nasheed

President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has engaged in a number of important discussions with the Former President and Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed.

The meeting between the two leaders was held at the President’s Office on Sunday morning.

Discussions during the meeting revolved around the local economy, climate change as well as environment protection.

Nasheed also spoke on changes to the governing system, “most fitting for the country” during the meeting.

Nasheed returned to Maldives earlier in October, after nearly five months abroad. Upon return, he had revealed that his efforts to introduce a parliamentary system into the Maldives, will be carried out with discussions with the president and that he believes this is the correct time for it.

Nasheed believes great things will happen for the Maldives, should it fall under a parliamentary system of governance.

This comes at a time Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) worked on collecting signatures to submit a petition calling to speed up amendments to the Maldives constitution in regard to introducing a parliamentary system.

Nasheed was targeted in an assassination attempt on May 6, as he was heading out to attend an event in an island. The attack, which saw a remote-controlled IED explode near his residence in the center of congested Malé City, caused serious injuries to the ex-president who was rushed to the hospital within seven minutes after being knocked to the ground by the blast, which was dubbed far more powerful than the explosion in Sultan Park, 2007.

The shrapnel pieces from the bomb blast caused a substantial amount of damage to his internal organs, but had missed some vital arteries and organs. A shrapnel piece struck his rib, which otherwise would have struck his heart, leading to a fatality.  Speaker Nasheed underwent 16 hours of live-saving surgery at ADK hospital.