Uncertainty looms over ex-president Yameen’s new party
The new party is trying to complete registration in time to field candidates for the parliamentary elections.
28 Jan 2019, 9:00 AM
The Elections Commission has formed a three-member committee to look into the alleged misuse of resources from the Progressive Party of Maldives to form a new party called the People’s National Congress.
The committee has been tasked with completing a report within three days, EC member Ahmed Akram told the press on Monday, declining to reveal details of complaints filed with the electoral body.
Lawmakers and loyalists of former president Abdulla Yameen decided to leave the PPM and form a new party last month, anticipating an unfavourable ruling over the PPM’s leadership dispute from the Supreme Court, which could hand back control of the party to former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
But it remains uncertain whether the People’s National Congress could be formally registered in time to field candidates for the April 6 parliamentary elections.
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