Leader of Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed said on Tuesday that he intends to proceed with submitting a no-confidence motion to dismiss Health Minister Abdulla Ameen, regardless of the consensus within the party’s parliamentary group.
The parliamentary group of main ruling party MDP convened for an emergency meeting on Tuesday evening to make a decision on submitting a no-confidence motion to the Parliament to dismiss Ameen in response to the corruption allegations against him.
Sun has been informed the emergency meeting was attended by 58 parliamentarians. 27 parliamentarians voted that they lacked confidence in Ameen, which fell just three votes short of the 29 votes required to pass the motion.
In a heated debate shortly before the parliamentary group took the vote, Nasheed said that “I will take this vote, even if it’s outside the party whip line.”
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