Parliament approves amendment for state to cover expenses of president’s private residence
21 Apr 2014, 7:48 PM
Parliament today voted through an amendment to the law governing renumeration and benefits for the president and vice president making it mandatory for the state to cover expenses of the pair’s private residences.
If either the president or vice president choose not to live in the official residences, the amendments stipulate that the state should provide employees and cover other expenses required for the private residence out of the budget allocated for the official residence.
However, aside from expenses for maintaining security, the amendment states that the expenses should not include “any additional capital expenditures.”
The amendment bill proposed by ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) MP Riyaz Rasheed was approved with 35 votes in favour, 15 against and one abstention.
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