Multi-Party Democracy for the Maldives
The Daily Mail: Gayoom said he himself was a “reformist” despite criticism of his iron-clad hold on power and argued that he had been “reforming” the country since he became president in 1978. “Reform is making things better…. I consider myself a reformist because when I took office in 1978 it was so different. I began my reform program. it has been a continuing process for the past 26 years.
“Now I see that the time is right for more sweeping changes. That is why I have proposed a new package of reform in which I envisage a multi-party political system, as well as the office of the prime minister, a supreme court and also that the president should be elected directly by the people.”
