Yameen in a sentence

At the last election in 2013, the Supreme Court annulled the result after Yameen trailed former president Mohamed Nasheed, giving Yameen time to forge alliances and win a second round of voting that was postponed twice.

The role of social media and Maldives' Dhiyares News is considered significant in crafting the narrative against India during Abdullah Yameen's term.

He easily won the primary, but Yameen’s pet courts declared his candidacy invalid and forced his replacement just days before the vote.

But Yameen saw such co-operation as a cover for surveillance and had asked India to withdraw two military helicopters along with 50 military personnel this year.

Despite repeated calls for intervention, India firmly avoided military action against the Yameen regime.

Especially after Yameen rejected India’s appeal to respect the Supreme Court’s decision and is now trying to bully the apex court into submission.

Exiled former president Mohammed Nasheed, who was among the opposition politicians ordered freed by the Supreme Court and is now in neighbouring Sri Lanka, said in a statement that Yameen “has illegally declared martial law and overrun the state.

Following are details of the tussle between the court and the president, which is threatening to spark a constitutional crisis and undermine Yameen's control of the Indian Ocean nation since he took power in 2013.

His trial was criticised internationally for lack of due process, along with the trials of many other political opponents jailed by outgoing President Yameen Abdul Gayoom’s administration.

Human rights groups urged Mr. Yameen not to take the law into his own hands.

I have accepted the results from yesterday,” Abdulla Yameen said in a televised address to the Indian Ocean nation a day after the joint opposition candidate unexpectedly triumphed.

India in a strongly-worded statement said it was disturbed over the state of Emergency imposed by President Abdullah Yameen whose government has arrested the country’s Chief Justice and former Maldivian President Abdul Gayoom.

It also restored the membership of 12 parliamentarians disqualified by the Election Commission for ‘defection’ at the behest of President Abdulla Yameen’s faction of the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM).

Jameel shared with South Asia Chair, MEP Jean Lambert, the recent amendments made in the Constitution by the Yameen administration.

Many opposition leaders, including Nasheed, that Yameen lifted the emergency because by then he had consolidated power, including over judiciary and parliament.

Shortly after his shock defeat, Yameen freed five prisoners.

The 12 had quit Yameen's ruling party last year, and allowing them to return to the legislature would deprive him of a majority.

The continued political crisis in the Maldives began on February 6, after President Abdulla Yameen ordered the arrest of the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the country along with a former president and declared a state of emergency.

The trials, which have been widely criticised, are being observed as part of President Abdulla Yameen’s plan to extend his term and strengthen his supremacy, as Maldives heads towards general elections in September this year.

This causes obvious troubles to President Yameen, as it allows his main rival to enter again in the archipelago’s political process.