Maldives ex-president demands election

“Fresh elections are our bottom line and we are not relying on the international community for that, we are relying on the people of the Maldives,” Nasheed told reporters on Friday in the capital Male.

“In absence of (elections) we would have to go out on the streets,” he added.

Nasheed also alleged that police and military were looting the Addu Atoll, and assaulting his political supporters. Addu Atoll is the southernmost atoll of the Maldives, and a political stronghold of Nasheed.

Police on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for Nasheed, the first democratically elected president of the Indian Ocean archipelago, but have yet to carry out the order.

“They have issued a warrant to arrest me now and said that I will be the first former president to spend the rest of his life in jail,” he stated on Thursday.

Since Tuesday when Nasheed lost his presidency, he has continued speaking to the press from his modest home in central Male, capital of the 1,200-island nation of 330,000 Muslims.

On Wednesday, Nasheed alleged that his resignation was in fact a coup at gunpoint, engineered by a clique of police, military and political rivals. His resignation brought thousands of supporters onto the streets of the country, renowned as a holidaymakers’ paradise.

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