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Maldives goes to the polls

MALE: The Maldives will hold elections for its 42-seat Parliament on Saturday, three weeks after they were postponed because of the Indian Ocean tsunami, a Government spokesman said. Nearly 150 individual candidates are contesting the elections in the absence of a multiparty system. A government spokesman said about 157,000 persons were registered to vote in the archipelago of 280,000 persons. Officials have arranged for ballot boxes to be taken to relief centres to enable hundreds of tsunami-affected persons to vote. Eightytwo Maldivians were killed by the December 26 tsunami, which hit the coastlines of many Asian countries and as far away as Africa. Officials from the Commonwealth and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation are in the country to monitor the elections.

— AP

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