MALE (Reuters) - Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom won a landmark referendum on Sunday to adopt a U.S.-style presidential system in the remote Indian Ocean island chain, in a vote seen as an acid test for Asia's longest serving ruler.
Gayoom had advocated a presidential system, while the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party pushed for a British-style parliamentary system in a vote it billed as referendum on his 29-year rule they describe as a dictatorship.
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