Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom declared on Thursday that he does not support his daughter Dhunya Maumoon joining the government again, shortly after she was appointed as the new State Minister of Health.
The first Minister of Foreign Affairs in the current regime of President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, Dhunya had resigned from office on July 5 last year over difference of opinion with the current government, stating that she was against the state’s decision to implement capital punishment in the Maldives.
The new development of appointing Dhunya as the new State Health Minister has come at a time when Former President Maumoon has withdrawn his support for the government of his half-brother and incumbent President Yameen.
Shortly after her appointment, Maumoon declared in a tweet that the choice to join the government is of Dhunya’s own making and that he is against the decision.
Following her resignation as the Foreign Minister, Dhunya had been critical of certain policies of the government. However, it is noteworthy that her condemnation was relatively less unforgiving than that of her siblings, all of whom sans her younger brother Ghassan Maumoon, are publicly rooting for their father, Former President Maumoon, in the political feud between him and his half-brother, the incumbent President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom which had subsequently split the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) into two factions.
As of now, Dhunya and Ghassan are the only children of Former President Maumoon working for the government, with the latter serving as the State Minister of the President’s Office. Ghassan had also worked with President Yameen’s faction of PPM at the time the political dispute between his father and uncle had been at its peak.
Meanwhile, their other siblings, Yumna Maumoon and Dhiggaru MP Faris Maumoon remain critical of the government and are siding with Former President Maumoon.
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