Vote on presidential commissions bill called off for third time
Eleven lawmakers from the ruling coalition were absent.
26 Feb 2019, 9:00 AM
A lack of quorum at Tuesday’s sitting of parliament prevented voting on a bill proposed by the government to grant legal powers to commissions formed by the president to recover stolen assets and investigate unresolved murders.
The number of lawmakers present at voting time was six short of the 43 MPs needed to pass laws.
Lawmakers from the four-party ruling coalition were accused of sabotaging the bill after a lack of quorum also prevented voting at Monday’s sitting.
MP Eva Abdulla from the Maldivian Democratic Party called their absence “an act of deliberate sabotage, by those with something to hide and a vested interest in covering up those past crimes.”
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