The president-elect of the Maldives Mohamed Muizzu said he will stick to his campaign promise to remove Indian military personnel stationed in the Muslim-majority archipelago state, promising he would initiate the process. According to international media reports, Mohamed Muizzu told his supporters on Monday night at a celebration of his election victory that he wouldn’t stand for a foreign military staying in the Maldives against the will of its citizens. \u201cThe people have told us that they don’t want foreign military here,\u201d he said. Outgoing President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who was elected president in 2018, was battling allegations by Muizzu that he had allowed India an unchecked presence in the country. Muizzu\u2019s party, the People\u2019s National Congress, is viewed as China-friendly. Muizzu’s main campaign theme was about an alleged threat to the Maldives’ sovereignty by some Indian military personnel on an island, part of the party’s yearslong \u201cIndia out\u201d strategy. Solih insisted that the Indian military\u2019s presence in the Maldives was only to build a dockyard under an agreement between the two governments and that his country\u2019s sovereignty won\u2019t be violated. Former President Abdulla Yameen, leader of the People\u2019s National Congress, made the Maldives a part of China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative during his presidency from 2013 to 2018. The initiative is meant to build railroads, ports and highways to expand trade.. On Sunday, Yameen was transferred from prison to house arrest, already fulfilling one of Muizzu’s campaign promises before he officially takes office on November 17. The Maldives is made up of 1,200 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, located by the main shipping route between the East and the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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