Gayoom rebuffs government’s demand of council-endorsed representatives for talks
The government demanded that representatives for all-party talks must be endorsed by executive councils after Gayoom appointed his son to represent the PPM. A majority of the divided ruling party’s council is seen as loyal to President Abdulla Yameen in the ongoing fued between the Gayoom brothers.
05 Oct 2016, 9:00 AM
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, leader of the divided Progressive Party of Maldives, has rebuffed the government’s demand for executive councils to approve representatives for the upcoming all-party talks.
The president’s office asked all political parties to send the names of council-endorsed representatives in letters sent out yesterday – after Gayoom decided that his son Ahmed Faris Maumoon and MP Mohamed Waheed Ibrahim will attend on behalf of the PPM.
“As some members of the council protested, walked out, and caused loss of quorum at the last council meeting, and because some members sued the party’s president in a court of law, a meeting of the party’s council cannot be held at present,” Gayoom said in his reply to the president’s office today.
MPs Faris and Waheed will be the PPM’s representatives, he insisted.
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