Opposition sends handwritten letter after failing to get audience
The staff at the the President's Office told the officials who visited the office on Sunday that the president had not received a letter.
By
Fathmath Ahmed Shareef
The opposition PPM/PNC coalition on Sunday sent a handwritten letter to President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih while being at the President's Office after failing to meet with him despite having gone to the office for four days in a row.
The opposition was never given the opportunity to meet the president on the grounds that they did not make a prior official appointment. However, the opposition says that top officials have been going to meet the president at the request of the President's Office, at the time that is given them.
The staff at the the President's Office told the officials who visited the office on Sunday that the president had not received a letter as per official protocol.
“So, while in the President’s Office today, we wrote the letter by hand and handed it over,” Maavashu MP Mohamed Saeed said.
The opposition coalition's interim leader, Abdul Raheem Abdullah, wrote in the letter to the president that they have been visiting the President's Office with serious concerns of the people, including:
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Opposition leader, former President Abdulla Yameen, is “being tortured on the orders of President Solih"
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Concern that Maldivian seas are being sold
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Concern that the president is "hiding" after the government orchestrated a parliamentary deadlock
