Parliament immobilised for third week running over cabinet endorsement issue
08 Nov 2010, 4:10 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The parliament sitting today was again cancelled this morning, with the political deadlock over the cabinet endorsement issuing immobilising the legislative branch of government for the third week runnig.
Speaker of Parliament Abdulla Shahid canceled the sitting and suggested the political parties come to an understanding over the cabinet endorsement issue, the same request he made last week.
The previous sitting was also canceled after the opposition and ruling party MPs clashed over the issue of cabinet endorsement, and MPs refused to debate other bills.
The opposition and the ruling party MPs have been continuously blaming each other for parliament’s repeated cancellation.
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