Nasheed backs one-round preferential voting

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Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed announced his support for a one-round preferential voting system in the Maldives on Sunday, expressing hope for support from both the Democrats and the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) for such switch. The Maldives currently uses the single member plurality system for parliamentary and council elections, and the two-round or runoff system for presidential elections. The president is