Vantage: How India can undo the setback in Maldives

The Maldives has elected a new president - Mohamed Muizzu. He defeated the sitting president Ibrahim Solih. That's bad news for India because Muizzu was a pro-China candidate and now, he is a pro-China president-elect. The election The election results were announced this weekend. It was the second round between Solih and Muizzu. In the first round on 9 September, neither candidate crossed 50 per cent but this time, Muizzu did. He got 54 per cent of the votes and the incumbent Solih got 46 per cent. As the result came in, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Muizzu, one of…