Government not taking 2012 seriously: Mahloof

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The opposition DRP Parliamentary Minority Leader Ahmed Mahloof today lashed out at the Government for not taking 2012 seriously.

“The Government’s sole focus is only on winning 2013 which shows that the current Leadership cannot see beyond his nose as 2013 will never come to pass unless we ready ourselves to tackle the Doomsday scenario of 2012,” Mahloof told an auspicious press gathering at Hall 25 at Dharubaaruge, the Maldives international convention center located on the scenic Boduthakurufaanu Magu which is lined with imported wintry coniferous trees in this otherwise sunny paradise.

“If need be, we will launch a longer protest than the youth protest we launched a few days back because soaring food prices and starvation will pale in comparison to the utter destruction that will come on 31 December 2012 because, come on, one could never disagree with Mayan mathematics because all their predictions have come true so far,” Mahloof said in answer to a question posed by TL.

“Yes, Maldivians will definitely starve,” potential future President of the religious conservative Adhaalath Party Sheikh Imran Abdulla echoed at the joint press conference. The Adhaalath Party is presently officially married to the ruling MDP but due to the traditionally promiscuous nature of Maldivian men and Maldivian politics, is now playing both host and mistress at the same time to any party which can assist the Adhaalath in promoting its agenda.

Mahloof further elaborated that all attempts to meet President Mohamed Nasheed and directly appeal to him to take 2012 seriously have so far failed.

“We gathered near the Presidential private residence Muleeaage but could not secure an audience. We also gathered near the Presidential official residence The President’s Office but no luck either. It is quite frustrating when the President, with the new arrogance he recently achieved after acquiring the Parliamentary Majority, has stopped listening to everybody but himself. The fool is on his way to become another dictator,” Mahloof said, which Haveeru columnists claimed were the wisest words the quite-spoken MP had spoken so far.

Asked whether the DRP has its own solutions and recommendations -- in order to prevent the US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Mr. Robert Blake from indirectly criticizing the DRP again -- on how Maldives and Maldivians can be saved in 2012 in order to prepare for the more-important Presidential elections of 2013, Mahloof, who is said to be quite a dish among the womenfolk of his Galolhu South constituency, said that “one way would be to construct a modern ark-cruise which can accommodate good-looking women of ripe age mature for sex and reproduction in order to save the Maldivian race.”