Muizzu: Maldives election's pro-China frontrunner

Male, Maldives (AFP) Sept 30, 2023

The frontrunner in Saturday's Maldives presidential vote is an ardent advocate of Chinese investment and has promised to steer the luxury tourism hotspot back towards Beijing's orbit if he wins. Mohamed Muizzu, a 45-year-old civil engineer by training, was an unlikely candidate after serving as construction minister in the government of his mentor Abdulla Yameen. But Yameen's jailing fo