Fayyaz decries 'dark' day for democracy; calls on Nasheed to face confidence vote
Afeef ruled that MDP filed the no-confidence motion against Nasheed in violation of the parliament's rules of procedure and asked the party to resubmit it.
After the parliament, chaired by speaker Mohamed Nasheed's Democrats MP Hassan Afeef, ruled that MDP filed the no-confidence motion against Nasheed in violation of the parliament's rules of procedure and asked the party to resubmit the motion, the outgoing ruling party's chairperson has called it dark and shameful day for parliamentary democracy in Maldives, and called on Nasheed to face the vote.
As Sunday's first sitting began at 9am, chaired by Vilufushi MP Afeef, who represents the Democrats to which Nasheed belongs, Democrats MPs began to raise points of order, with the intent to prevent the motion from being moved. They cited the reason that the resolution was not in accordance with the rules of procedure.
Democrats parliamentary group leader, Central Henveiru MP Ali Azim said the motion was submitted without the details it should have. Therefore, the motion cannot be submitted to parliament and the opportunity will not be given, he repeatedly said.
Fayyaz Ismail said in a post on X that the "atrocities" of former speaker of parliament Abdulla Maseeh has paled into insignificance with the "shameful, cowardly acts" by Afeef to block the no-confidence motion.
"A dark and shameful day for parliamentary democracy in Maldives. Face the vote, Mohamed Nasheed," the post read.
In a constitutional petition filed by the MDP on the deadlock on the no-confidence motion against speaker Mohamed Nasheed, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the motion could proceed even in the absence of deputy speaker Eva Abdulla.
