Talk:2024 Maldivian parliamentary election

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"With President Mohamed Muizzu assuming his role as executive during the presidential elections held in 2023, the country’s politics has been dominated by his affiliated coalition, People's National Congress (PNC), which formed an alliance with the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM)."

"Initial results suggested that the ruling party, the People's National Congress was on course to win at least 70 seats."

How is this possible with the out-going People's Majlis being dominated by the MDP? I don't understanding what is meant by "ruling party" or how a minority party/block "dominated" the country's politics. Anyone want to make the appropriate edits to clear this up in the article/ Criticalthinker (talk) 06:06, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Was also wondering about that. It won’t be the first time edits from the one who added that had been reverted in this article. Borgenland (talk) 11:55, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think what may be happening here is bad translation. I think they mean "presidential party" by "ruling party," you know, the party which held the presidency before the election. But not knowing if that is what was meant, I don't feel comfortable changing it. As for the "has been dominated by his affiliated coalition," that seems to be taken word-for-word from the source, and I don't really know how to explain that. Perhaps, again, it's worded that way to give the sense that the president's party contested everything and ran a strong campaign. But, again, not knowing the background of this election, that'd just be a guess. This is all just so strangely written and at least in English, gives an inaccurate portrayal of the political environment before and after the election. The news here to me could simply be described as the majority-party in the outgoing legislature having lost its majority in a landslide, but being clear that they had controlled the body before that and it was exactly why the president campaigned for a majority. Criticalthinker (talk) 09:26, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]