Voters across the Maldives came out in force on Saturday to vote in an election that could see the honeymoon islands' first elected leader return to power, a year after being toppled.

Long queues formed outside polling booths before voting started under bright sunshine across the Indian Ocean archipelago, with the incumbent President Mohamed Waheed among the first to vote.

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