President: MDP must move forward with disagreements as well

Senior Leader of Maldives Democratic party (MDP), President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has said that the party has no choice but to move forward with difference of opinions at the fourth congress of the MDP which began in Male' city last night.

The President made this statement amid major differences of opinion between him and the president of the longest-running party, former President Mohamed Nasheed. Differences of opinion between President Solih and Nasheed have led to the party splitting into two factions.