Maldives Democratic Party MDP has published its voters' list for the upcoming party primary to elect a presidential candidate for next year's election.

MDP said that its members can now lodge complaints against the list and that the deadline for lodging complaints would be on the 1st of January at 04:00 pm.

President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih as well as Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Nasheed would compete in the upcoming primary scheduled for late next month.

While Nasheed received candidate number 1 and President Solih received candidate number 2.

The campaigning for both factions has now kicked off with full force with both camps utilizing social media platforms to campaign and anti-campaign.