Elections Commission processing membership forms ahead of mass de-registration
“We are trying to process the forms sent in December by the end of January. We will be deregistering any membership form without fingerprints after that,” commission member Ahmed Akram told The Maldives Independent today.
03 Jan 2016, 9:00 AM
The Elections Commission is processing membership forms submitted ahead of a December 31 deadline from members who joined political parties without submitting fingerprinted forms.
The EC had ordered all parties to re-register members without fingerprints by the end of the year. Fingerprinted forms was a requirement introduced by the 2013 Political Parties Act.
“We are trying to process the forms sent in December by the end of January. We will be de-registering any membership form without fingerprints after that,” commission member Ahmed Akram told The Maldives Independent today.
The main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party – the largest party in the country by membership numbers – was required to re-register nearly half of its 48,000 members before December 31.
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