DQP accuses municipality of illegally promoting MDP
24 Nov 2009, 7:36 AM
The Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) filed a case with the Election Commission (EC) yesterday, claiming that Male’ Municipality violated political party regulations by using government resources to build decorative Eid columns promoting the ruling party.
The columns, painted with Eid Mubarak (Happy Eid) as well as the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party’s logo of flowers, have been placed along Majeedhee Magu, one of the capital’s busiest shopping districts.
“The party believes that the objects kept on Majeedhee Magu wishing Eid Mubarak by the Male’ Municipality…was in violation of the spirit of the constitution…as it was done using government property to promote a particular party,” reads the DQP letter to the EC.
The party further alleged that the columns were made by the municipality’s road construction section during working hours by municipality employees.
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