Umar Naseer requests Supreme Court ruling on party membership
02 Jul 2013, 2:28 PM
Mohamed Naahee
Former Vice President of the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) Umar Naseer has filed for a Supreme Court ruling requesting the court declare how a person becomes a member of political party.
Speaking to local media outlet Sun Online, Naseer said that the procedure as to how a person becomes a member of political party were unclear as per the Political Parties Act. Therefore the case was filed at the court requesting it to make a clarification on the matter, added Naseer.
“It has to be cleared whether a person becomes a member of political party after he submits the form to the party office or whether the person is registered in the elections commission as a member of the said party. This is unclear. This is what I want to seek from Supreme Court,” he said.
The application for the ruling comes shortly after Civil Court dismissed his case challenging the legitimacy of the PPM’s presidential primary in which Naseer lost to Abdulla Yameen.
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