PPM MP Saud pledges support to Gayoom
Saud is the second PPM MP to abandon President Yameen since the united opposition coalition sought unsuccessfully to impeach the speaker of parliament and dismantle the previously secure pro-government majority.
03 Apr 2017, 9:00 AM
MP Saud Hussain of the Progressive Party of Maldives has joined former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s faction of the divided ruling party, pledging support to his “reform efforts” in alliance with opposition parties.
“Maumoon is PPM and PPM is Maumoon. His service cannot be erased from the nation,” the MP for the Villigili constituency in Gaaf Alif atoll tweeted Sunday night.
Saud also posted a photo of a meeting with Gayoom’s son Faris Maumoon and the other ruling party lawmakers who have openly sided with the 79-year-old former president.
Gayoom, the PPM’s founder and elected leader, was expelled from the party last week by its ethics committee. But Gayoom’s supporters disputes the legal standing of the committee and insists that only a two-third majority of delegates at a PPM national congress can remove a sitting president.
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