The Maldives’ foreign minister Dunya Maumoon has quit the government over its hasty decision to implement the death penalty, which could mar the image of the country.
The resignation of Dunya, niece of the country’s President Yameen Abdul Gayoom and daughter of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who ruled the country for three decades from 1978 to 2008, comes amid reports of a power rift between the country’s powerful ruling family.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Dunya, 45, said, she had decided to resign from the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs because of irreconcilable disagreements on the government’s policy in implementing the death penalty in the Maldives.