‘Lack of context’ in voting record website angers lawmakers
The MageyMP site by Transparency Maldives shows attendance and voting records.
04 Mar 2019, 9:00 AM
Incumbent lawmakers seeking re-election next month have criticised a website created by anti-corruption NGO Transparency Maldives with attendance and voting records over the past decade.
Launched last week, MageyMP.org aims “to promote accountability of MPs by providing citizens with easy access to how their representatives voted and ways to contact them,” according to the local chapter of Transparency International.
But the NGO failed to provide context when lawmakers were shown as absent for more than a year since late 2017, some MPs from the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party complained.
After protesting in the chamber, then-opposition lawmakers started boycotting votes in protest against the disqualification of defectors from the ruling party, which was used to quash a no-confidence motion against speaker Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed and restore a pro-government majority.
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