Abdul Raheem appointed director-general of transitional committee

Abdul Raheem Abdulla (Adhurey), the chairperson of PNC, has been appointed as the director-general of transition.

Abdul Raheem was appointed to the position by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) on Thursday.

He was nominated to the position by the opposition PPM-PNC coalition on Monday.

Abdul Raheem will head the transitional committee, which will oversee the transfer of power to the incoming president Dr. Mohamed Muizzu, who won the Maldives presidential runoff election, last weekend.

Meanwhile, Mohamed Firuzul Abdulla Khaleel, a close aid to former Islamic Minister Dr. Mohamed Shaheem Ali Saeed, was appointed as the spokesperson of the transitional committee on Wednesday.

PPM-PNC’s Muizzu won the presidential runoff election held on Saturday with 129,159 votes (54 percent), beating MDP’s Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, the incumbent president, who won 109,868 votes (46 percent).

On Wednesday, PNC elected Muizzu as the party’s leader, and the vice president-elect Hussain Mohamed Latheef (Sembe) as the deputy leader.

Abdul Raheem, who had been serving as the PNC’s leader until then, was appointed as the party’s chairperson.

According to the opposition coalition, the changes were made with the unanimous vote of 40 members who attended the council meeting.

Muizzu will be sworn into office on November 17.