Funding for political parties withheld
Citing leadership vacuums and complaints over reckless spending and mismanagement, the elections commission has withheld public funding for all political parties
13 Oct 2016, 9:00 AM
Citing leadership vacuums and complaints over reckless spending and mismanagement, the elections commission has withheld public funding for all political parties.
In a letter sent Monday to the six political parties registered in the Maldives, Ali Sulaiman, the president of the national electoral body, said the commission was delaying public funding for 2016, indefinitely.
Some 0.2percent of the state budget is allocated for political parties and distributed each year according to the size of a party’s membership.
The elections commission is required to disburse the funds in the first quarter of the year, but delayed funding this year, initially blaming a legal battle over an order requiring parties re-register members whose fingerprints were not on file.
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