Former President Mohamed Nasheed has been voted as the most admired Maldivian of 2017, in a Twitter poll held by RaajjeTV.
The poll, opened on Thursday afternoon for 24 hours, showed that 5,063 people had voted.
Nasheed, opposition MDP’s de-facto leader, won with 72 percent of the votes, with incumbent President Abdulla Yameen in second place with just 22 percent.
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom received four percent, while Qasim Ibrahim, philanthropist and leader of Jumhoree Party (JP) leader, received two percent.
Who is the most admired Maldivian person in the year 2017?
— RaajjeTVPoll (@RaajjeTVPoll) December 28, 2017
When the poll was opened, supporters of Nasheed and Yameen furiously campaigned on social media to gather votes.
Citizens, politicians, government officials, and activists had retweeted the poll after casting their own votes.
The poll is notable for gathering the most votes in a 24-hour window out of any Twitter poll in Maldives so far. It has also received 223 comments, 359 retweets, and 259 likes.
After Nasheed was declared the winner, MDP Spokesperson and North-Maafannu MP Imthiyaz Fahmy said it was clear that President Yameen would lose in any poll.
