President Abdulla Yameen is unlikely to do right by the Maldivian people for the ‘short remainder’ of his time in office, says former Housing Minister Mohamed Aslam.
Aslam said, speaking at a television show on Tuesday night, that he had some hope that the incumbent president would have made sufficient ruler, given his long career in politics.
“I did not vote for him, I did not support him. But he has been in politics for so long and has an understanding of it that there was promise when he was elected” Aslam said, on RaajjeTV.
He further said that Yameen has proven himself to be a disappointing leader and has eroded democratic principles and centralized the mechanisms of state.
Aslam said, that with parliament and local courts under ‘siege’, the only option left for the people is to remove the incumbent president through ballots, and ‘legal means’.
The former minister had been heavily active during the recent protests in capital city Malé and was on March 14th arrested in one alongside other opposition aligned parliamentarians.
He served in the cabinet during former President Mohamed Nasheed's administration, and has long been associated with his Maldivian Democratic Party, the largest in the current coalition of Preisdent Yameen's opposition.
