Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom ( Dhivehi މައުމޫން އަބްދުލް ގައްޔޫމް, GCMG ; * December 29, 1937 in Malé ) is a Maldivian politician. He was President of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008 .

Life

Gayoom studied civil law and Islamic law abroad and graduated in 1966. After returning to the Maldives in 1971, he worked as a high school teacher for one year. After that, Gayoom began a steep career as a government employee. In 1972 he came to the shipping office and in 1974 to the telecommunications office, of which he became head. From 1975 Gayoom was in diplomatic service, from 1976 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as permanent representative to the United Nations . He became Minister of Transport in 1977 before being elected President of the island state in 1978 .

Gayoom had replaced the former president Ibrahim Nasir . In October 2003 he was re-elected with 90.28 percent of the vote. He was the only candidate and was nominated by the Majlis parliament . The choice took the form of a referendum , the only options available were yes or no .

Gayoom was criticized for his autocratic leadership style and was widely regarded as a dictator . According to Amnesty International , in 2003 there were "severe restrictions on the freedom of the press and political parties were hindered in their activities". Rioting broke out in September 2003, resulting in arrests. There were also shots. The Democratic Party of the Maldives was the strongest opposition force under Gayoom.

Political prisoners in Gayoom's time, and also before him, in the absence of prisons, were mostly exiled to islands far from their home atoll. Many Maldives continue to believe that the country's progress is largely thanks to the efforts of Gayoom.

Gayoom was also the defense minister and finance minister of his country for a long time , positions he gave up on September 1, 2004. Of his four children, the eldest daughter, Dunya Maumoon, was seen as the likely successor.

On October 29, 2008, the moderate Mohamed Nasheed was elected as the successor to Gayoom in the first free multi-party elections.

On February 5, 2018, Gayoom was arrested following a state of emergency declared by then President Abdulla Yameen , who is also Gayoom's half-brother.

Web links

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
"Maumoon Gayyoom and Saddam Hussein - the horse's mouth" ( Memento of August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Maldives Culture , December 21, 2003

Individual evidence

↑ Heyerdahl, Fua Mulaku: The delinquent was able to move freely on the island in question, but was not allowed to leave it. One of Heyerdahl's companions, Mohamend Loutfi, a senior official in the Ministry of Education in the 1980s, describes his exile for several years before Gayoom's time as a kind of vacation; therefore, having in the meantime gained a fair amount of power, he was very reluctant to initiate such punishment at all by filing a complaint.
^ " State of emergency in the holiday paradise" , FAZ, February 6, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Gayoom, Maumoon Abdul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Maldivian politician, President of the Maldives (1978–2008)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 29, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Times

[1] Heyerdahl, Fua Mulaku: The delinquent was able to move freely on the island in question, but was not allowed to leave it. One of Heyerdahl's companions, Mohamend Loutfi, a senior official in the Ministry of Education in the 1980s, describes his exile for several years before Gayoom's time as a kind of vacation; therefore, having in the meantime gained a fair amount of power, he was very reluctant to initiate such punishment at all by filing a complaint.

[2] " State of emergency in the holiday paradise" , FAZ, February 6, 2018, accessed on August 3, 2018.