A "Coup" Is Brewing in America: Nasheed

The unrest in the United States is an attempted coup d'état, speaker of the Maldivian Parliament and former President Mohamed Nasheed said.

In a recent tweet, Nasheed said that the "spectacle" taking place in the US Capitol is "nothing less than an attempted coup d'état", and claimed to be able to recognize the signs of a coup given that he had "been through one". This was in reference to the political unrest of February 7, 2012, which lead to Nasheed's sudden resignation.

He also said that it was not just "US democracy, but democratic freedoms and norms around the world" that were being threatened by the unrest.

The United States Congress had scheduled to officially declare Joe Biden as having won the November presidential election yesterday when US President Donald J. Trump directed masses of his supporters to gather at the US Capitol. Trump maintains that the election was fraudulent.

Many hundreds of radical Trump supporters who had gathered stormed the Capitol. One person has been killed in the unrest that followed.