Visam Ali ( dv, ވިސާމް އަލީ) is a former High Commissioner of the Maldives to

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. She was a Maldivian

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representing

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, Maduvvaree

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for the 18th sitting of

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. From 26 March 2019 to 1 February 2020, she was the last Ambassador of the Maldives to Malaysia, when the Maldives returned to its status as a

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, then she became the High Commissioner as a result.

Career

Prior to her

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she was a

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and headed the Department of Higher Education and Training, during

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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (; dv, މައުމޫން ޢަބްދުލް ޤައްޔޫމް; born 29 December 1937) is a Maldivian politician and an Islamic scholar who served as the President of Maldives from 1978 to 2008. After serving as Minister of Trans ...

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. With her spouse Ahmed Thasmeen Ali, then Vice Presidential Candidate of DRP, she signed to Maldivian Democratic Party after the defeat in the presidential elections in 2008. Visam Ali has advocated for

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and

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, Health care for

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patients, and submitted the

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control bill to the Peoples Majlis. She also advocated for the

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in her

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and criticized

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's policy on using

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against protestors in Maldives. She is one of the MP's who declined to receive the controversial MVR 20,000 committee allowance for MP's by Peoples Majlis. She resigned from her position as High Commissioner on 5 April 2022.

References

1974 births Living people High Commissioners of the Maldives to Malaysia Members of the People's Majlis University of Adelaide alumni Murdoch University alumni Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party politicians 21st-century Maldivian women politicians 21st-century Maldivian politicians {{Maldives-politician-stub