We will Try our Best not to allow Gayoom and Nasheed return back to power- Alhan

Recently deposed elected Vice President of the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), Alhan Fahmy has said that former Presidents, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed cannot return back to power, and he and his team will try to stop them returning to [politics .

Speaking at the press conference held at Nalahiya Hotel, Feydhoo MP Alhan Fahmy said that the people do not want a system that is based on revolving around a spiritual leader. He added that the people want a responsible leader not a spiritual leader.

Alhan said that the people have witnessed enough to reject Gayoom and Nasheed’s ‘spiritual leader’ politics.

When asked whether he considered every political party in the country revolves around a spiritual leader, Alhan said that this system of the members revolving around a spiritual leader is present only within two parties. He added that he will never join these two parties.

Alhan also refuted the claims that only two ideologies exists in Maldivian politics. He said that this is a false claim.

“There exists not only two ideologies. Yes there are two big personalities in Maldives. But not only two ideologies. But two personalities. First is the former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who ruled the country for thirty years and the second is Nasheed who ruled Maldives for three years and later resigned. If this are two ideologies then they are two ideologies. If the methodology of Gayoom is to be regarded as an ideology why was he not still our President? What happened to Canaryge Nasheed when he started acting outside the constitution? So if these are the only two ideologies that exist in this country why are they not in power today? So it should be known that there are more than these ideologies,” he said.