Committee sets 10,000-member threshold for political party funding
The parliament’s independent institutions committee has approved amendments proposed to the Political Parties Act to set a threshold of 10,000 registered members for political parties to be eligible for state funding.
16 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
The parliament’s independent institutions committee has approved amendments proposed to the Political Parties Act to set a threshold of 10,000 registered members for political parties to be eligible for state funding.
The amendments submitted on behalf of the government, by Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) MP Azhan Fahmy, proposed abolishing or amending clauses in the political parties law that the Supreme Court had previously ruled were unconstitutional.
The amendments stipulate that a political party should have 3,000 members to register as a political party and must have and 10,000 members to be eligible for state funding.
The bill was sent to the independent institutions committee for review on March 16 and is likely to be put to a vote this week. It is likely to pass as the PPM controls a comfortable majority in parliament.
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