Maldivians clear path for a woman on top, but will there be footprints?

Feb 06, 2008 (LBO) - Maldives have cleared the bar to elect a woman president, but the glass ceiling is unlikely to shatter soon as the incumbent strongman wants to rule on into a fourth decade, analysts said. Though the 50-member majlis, a representative body, has cleared the way Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, 70, has already announced plans to contest the presidency under a new constitution this year, adding to the six terms he has already served since 1978.
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He is already Asia's longest serving leader.

Political parties have only been legal on the 1,192 coral islands since 2005 when Gayoom embarked on a series of reforms in the face of pro-democracy protests.

Gayoom has previously been the sole presidential candidate nominated by a 50-member majlis, or local parliament -- eight members of which are his own nominees.

Opposition parties see Gayoom as autocratic, leading the country to anarchy and mismanaging the economy of just under a billion dollars, but it is easily South Asia's richest state with the highest per capita income and lowest inflation.
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But none of the parties have named their presidential candidate. Instead the main opposition Maldivian Democrati