People have begun queueing up outside their respective polling stations in capital Male’, to vote for this year’s Parliamentary Elections.

Voting is to begin across Maldives from 8am to 4pm, in neighboring India and Sri Lanka from 8:30am to 4:30pm, in Malaysia from 11am to 7pm and in United Kingdom from 9:30am to 5:30pm during their local times.

A total of 144 ballot boxes will be stationed across Malé while the total ballot box count for Saturday’s polls is 501.

A total of 1,663 monitors and 3,624 observers- including 31 international observers- will be active throughout the elections. 2,220 monitors will be active from media and over 4,000 officials from the EC will be actively involved as well.