Gayoom launches fresh legal bid to retake ruling party
Gayoom is petitioning the civil court asking it to invalidate Yameen’s usurpation of the authority of the party’s elected leader.
10 Nov 2016, 9:00 AM
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has launched a fresh bid to retake control of the ruling party from his half-brother and incumbent president, Abdulla Yameen.
Gayoom, the elected leader of the Progressive Party of the Maldives, filed a petition at the civil court on October 30, asking judges to invalidate Yameen’s usurpation of the authority of the party’s leader.
The former president of 30 years maintains that Yameen, as advisor to the party, only holds a ceremonial role and is not entitled to the leadership.
The bid is likely to fail, as it was a previous civil court ruling that had paved the way for Yameen’s assumption of the party’s leadership.
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