President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom appeared headed for a runoff against a former political prisoner who leads the main opposition in the Maldives' first democratic presidential election, according to poll results announced Thursday.
As of Thursday morning, Gayoom had received nearly 40 percent of the 130,000 votes counted, while Maldivian Democratic Party leader Mohamed Nasheed came in second with just over 26 percent, said elections commission chairman Mohamed Ibrahim. Four other candidates split the remainder of the vote.
The commission did not give figures for turnout among the 208,000 registered voters in this Indian Ocean archipelago, so it was impossible to …
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