“It's now time to bring peace, the people have decided. It's now time for development”
Quoted on BBC News, "Maldives election: Abdulla Yameen wins run-off vote" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24974019, November 16, 2013.
Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom is a Maldivian politician who has been the 6th President of the Maldives since 2013. He left office on 17 November 2018 following his defeat in the 2018 presidential election, in which he sought to win a second 5-year term.Yameen was elected president in the 2013 presidential election as the candidate of the Progressive Party , defeating Maldivian Democratic Party leader and former president Mohamed Nasheed in the second round of the re-run, after the initial election was annulled. He left office on 17 November 2018 following his defeat in the 2018 presidential election, in which he sought to win a second 5-year term. He is the second democratically elected president of the Republic of the Maldives.
“It's now time to bring peace, the people have decided. It's now time for development”
Quoted on BBC News, "Maldives election: Abdulla Yameen wins run-off vote" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24974019, November 16, 2013.
Speaking in Alif Dhaal atoll Maamigili, president Yameen reiterated that the repeated invitations to the opposition to join the talks were sincere. He repeatedly called on the opposition to participate in the negotiations in what he described as a way of testing the government’s sincerity, quoted on Haveeru, "Maldives pres says ready to end opposition grievances, insists on talks" http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/67388, March 16, 2015.
Abdulla Yameen, the 6th pesident and current president of the Maldives, Haveeru (February 4, 2016), "Maldives pres pledges closer global ties, insists no place for interference" http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/66150?e=en_ht