The blame game: Muizzu throws inner circle under the bus after electoral humiliation!

Midway through his term, President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu has hit a wall of public resentment, receiving a definitive "no" from a citizenry that has clearly lost all faith in his leadership. Despite pulling every dirty trick in the book from handing out jobs and illicit cash to threatening workers with the axe and launching projects at the final hour, the incumbent was still crushed. This wasn't just a loss; it was a referendum where those rejecting Muizzu’s direction actually outnumbered the people who originally put him in office. Even with the total mobilization of state power and resources the result was a staggering, humiliating blow.

The Mulee'aage meltdown

Rather than looking in the mirror, an enraged Muizzu held a post-debacle meeting at Mulee'aage to scream at his ministers, state-owned enterprise (SOE) bosses and his lapdog parliamentarians. Refusing to take an ounce of personal accountability, the incumbent dumped the entire failure on their laps. True to form, he started firing people on the spot. Ministers who didn't jump high enough and SOE heads who failed to produce the "correct" results were kicked out or forced to resign without a hint of due process.

The facade of reform

This frantic reshuffle was sold to the public as a "corrective measure," but it was nothing more than a desperate smoke-and-mirrors show. While some were discarded, others were inexplicably promoted; take Heena Waleed, the former NSPA MD who, despite massive public outcry, was bumped up to a ministerial role. Meanwhile, the real failures like those drowning in corruption allegations and theft, kept their seats. Figures like Abdulla Mohamed who is linked to a missing million-Rufiyaa gas payment that left the public high and dry, and Economic Minister Saeed, who sat back while the cost of living exploded and the U.S. Dollar hit MVR 20, remain untouched.

Fireworks and finger-pointing in Rasdhoo

After purging his officials, the incumbent fled to AA. Rasdhoo to celebrate the only tiny win he could secure. Surrounded by the government elite and a pricey display of fireworks, he found a new group to blame: the ordinary PNC campaign workers. Despite Rasdhoo, Thoddoo, and Ukulhas showing support, Muizzu used the rally to claim the national defeat happened because the campaign teams were too incompetent to sell his message. He specifically whined that the public’s rejection of holding two major elections on the same day was a failure of PNC teams to explain a "straightforward" issue.

The propaganda machine vs. reality

Muizzu’s claim that the campaign was "ineffective" is a total fabrication. In reality, the "yes" narrative completely dominated the airwaves. State media blasted nothing but government propaganda until the final second, burying any potential downsides of the election merger. Nearly every state-funded TV channel and news site was a wall-to-wall advertisement for the incumbent's proposal, leaving the opposition completely buried under a mountain of government banners and posters. The very campaign teams Muizzu is now insulting were the ones who worked tirelessly to saturate the streets and screens with his agenda.

A president in denial

The bitter truth Muizzu refuses to accept is that the people are simply fed up. The public has walked away because his actions never match his words and his promises have turned out to be empty. After being handed total power, the promised "transformation" never showed up, and voters are tired of being lied to. By evading responsibility and targeting his own loyalists, Muizzu is only isolating himself further. The people have made their move; the next move is his, but his current path of deception is only making a bad situation worse.