The Jumhooree Party has been ‘besieged by pirates’ who have taken control of the party and are abusing it, says party president Ali Waheed. 
Waheed, also the current Minister of Tourism, said this while speaking at a campaign event for the government coalition’s Maldivian Democratic Party. 
Speaking at the rally, Waheed heavily criticised the Jumhooree Party’s alliance with the Progressive Coalition, a decision made by party founder Qasim Ibrahim.
The Jumhooree Party is now acting ‘out of bounds, and limits’, and that he will ‘lose nothing’ by being removed from the party for criticising it. 
The ‘Progressive Coalition’ is the name of the union between former ruling party Progressive Party of Maldives, and the newly formed People’s National Congress, both parties loyal to former president Abdulla Yameen.
Qasim made the alliance with the Progressive Coalition after the Maldivian Democratic Party announced its decision to field candidates to all but one of 87 constituencies in the upcoming parliamentary election.
The party said that the Maldivian Democratic Party had done so against a standing agreement between members of the coalition about dividing constituencies among them.
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