MALE, Maldives — Police in the Maldives raided the main campaign office of the opposition presidential candidate on Saturday, the eve of an election viewed as a referendum on whether democracy will survive in the country. The opposition’s presidential candidate, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, was not in the office at the time of the raid, Aminath said. While police searched the opposition campaign office, journalists in the capital were summoned away to the elections office to pick up mandatory election-coverage permits. “So far, we have facilitated whatever the opposition candidate requested, within the regulations and laws permitting us,” Shareef told reporters. “There is no democracy in the Maldives — democracy has vanished under President Yameen,” said Adam Ahmed, a 58-year-old opposition activist.

Source: National Post September 22, 2018 12:16 UTC