<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Along with Nasheed, twelve Members of Parliament who supported him also left MDP to form a new party "The Democrats", months before Presidential elections due in September. </p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Former Maldivian President and Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed has decided to part ways with the main-ruling Maldivian Democratic Party. Along with Nasheed, twelve Members of Parliament who supported him also left MDP to form a new party "The Democrats", months before Presidential elections due in September. The Election Commission is yet to recognise the party.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Nasheed shared his decision through a handwritten letter addressed to MDP Chairman Fayyaz Ismail, which he posted on social media.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In the letter, Nasheed expressed his gratitude to the party and its members and stated that he had chosen to take a different path.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">MDP which had super majority in the 87 member Majlis, witnessed disagreements when Nasheed proposed a change in the government system from a presidential system to a parliamentary system. The MDP still holds majority with 55 MPs. </p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #252525;">Earlier this year, President Ibrahim Solih had won ruling MDP presidential primary elections.</span></p>