MDP Parliamentarians submit no-confidence motion against Speaker Shahid
17 Apr 2012, 5:13 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) Parliamentary Group has today passed a no-confidence motion against Abdulla Shahid, Speaker of the People’s Majlis.
The now opposition party said it had moved to pass the current no-confidence motion against Speaker Shahid over allegations that he had been making decisions relating to significant parliamentary issues without discussing them with various political parties.
The party claimed that Shahid had been acting outside of his mandate by deciding to suspend certain parliament regulations, whilst opting to follow others that were to his personal benefit. The MDP allege the speaker had been doing this without discussing his decisions among any political parties represented inside parliament.
From within the MDP Parliamentary Group, 27 members out of a total of 32 belonging to the group are said to have signed the no-confidence motion. The party claimed that its members who did not sign the motion had been unavailable to do so at present.
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