Ratification of the Constitution
By the time President Gayoom finally put pen to paper to ratify the Maldives’ new Constitution on August 7th this year, a four year struggle had taken place between the thirty-year dictator and the country’s progressive reform movement. The President signed a document which significantly reduces his power, handing over greater responsibility to Parliament and a host of new rights and freedoms to the Maldivian people.
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