Two more lawmakers join JP
MPs Ilham Ahmed and Hussain Mohamed Latheef are the latest lawmakers to switch parties.
22 Nov 2018, 9:00 AM
MPs Ilham Ahmed and Hussain Mohamed Latheef on Wednesday joined the Jumhooree Party amid a flurry of lawmakers switching parties after September’s presidential election.
The pair signed for the JP, the second largest party in the ruling coalition, during a ceremony at the party headquarters with leader Gasim Ibrahim.
Ilham, who was elected on a JP ticket to the Dhagethi seat, told the press that he left to join the former ruling party after consulting with Gasim, adding that he had tried to stop former president Abdulla Yameen’s efforts to “destroy” the JP leader’s Villa business empire.
Ilham was among a dozen Progressive Party of Maldives MPs who left the party in July last year after backing the opposition’s bid to impeach the former speaker. After more than a year out of parliament, he was reinstated last month along with other lawmakers who were deemed to have lost their seats over an anti-defection ruling by the Supreme Court.
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