MDP launches recruitment drive to re-register members
The MDP said in a statement on Thursday that it is aiming to re-register more than 23,000 -nearly half of its 48,000 members – before the end of the month. The Elections Commission had imposed a deadline of December 31 for parties to re-register members who had submitted membership forms before a requirement for fingerprints was enforced.
27 Dec 2015, 9:00 AM
The main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party launched a membership recruitment drive in Malé and its suburb Hulhumalé last week.
The MDP said in a statement on Thursday that it is aiming to re-register more than 23,000 members –nearly half of its 48,000 members – before the end of the month. The Elections Commission had imposed a deadline of December 31 for parties to re-register members who had submitted membership forms before a requirement for fingerprints was enforced.
The recruitment drive took place at the party’s meeting halls in the capital and its suburb last week, the MDP said, adding that the party’s women’s wing is planning to expand the recruitment activities to the rest of the country.
The requirement for fingerprints on membership forms was introduced in a regulation in 2010 and by law in the 2013 Political Parties Act.
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