Maldives: Muizzu's pro-China party claims landslide victory

The party of Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu claimed a landslide victory at Sunday’s parliamentary election.

Muizzu’s party, the People’s National Congress, won 66 of the first 86 seats declared by the Elections Commission of the Maldives — enough for a super-majority in the 93-seat parliament.

Muizzu himself was not up for election but his party previously lacked enough seats in parliament to move ahead his agenda of abandoning the country’s “India First” policy and reorienting…