Court halts mass de-registration of political party members
The High Court issued today a stay order halting the Election Commission’s de-registration of tens of thousands of members from opposition parties.
01 Feb 2016, 9:00 AM
The High Court issued today a stay order halting the Election Commission’s de-registration of tens of thousands of members from opposition parties.
The order was granted following a complaint lodged at the civil court by the Maldivian Democratic Party and the Adhaalath Party over the EC’s declaration that all political party membership forms without fingerprints were invalid.
This means that the MDP, the first and largest political party in the country, would have lost nearly half of its members if they failed to fill new forms by December 31.
But the MDP, the Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party and the Adhaalath Party are contesting the new condition, arguing that the requirement for fingerprints cannot be applied retroactively.
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