Ministry of Finance asked to provide list of political appointees
17 Mar 2010, 6:12 PM
Laura Restrepo Ortega
Minister of Finance and Treasury Ali Hashim was asked today to provide the Parliament with details of the number of political appointees, their titles and salaries under the current government.
Independent MP Mohamed Nasheed requested the information from the minister.
He said there had been a “war on words” regarding the number of political appointees in both the former and current governments, with some people saying there were as many as 600 appointees while others claimed there were fewer than 300.
“There has always been a comparison between this government and the previous one,” Nasheed said, referring to one of the things the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) criticised most about the former government: that it was =‘top heavy.’
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