Speaking at a campaign rally in Male for the upcoming parliamentary elections, Nasheed said that development to Maldives required correction within the judiciary and that his Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) shall not cease to work for it. "I wish to make heard to the current chief justice, who had lied to President Maumoon and myself and deceived me, to not think at all that we shall stop this work. We will emerge. We will stand up if we are thrown down. We will stand up faster than we were thrown down," he said. Nasheed described the Supreme Court's response to international criticism over the court disqualifying the Elections Commission chair and deputy as an act of meddling with the country's future. "I will call on the chief justice to not meddle with my children. Don't meddle with our children. You are ruining the future of our coming generations," he said. Nasheed also said that the chief justice did not fully comprehend judicial operations when he responded to the international community. "Don't pretend to be such a lawful or judicious man just because you spent your childhood in astrology. When you cannot even speak proper English, then what do you think you can do?" he said. Nasheed accused some judges of accepting bribes and that the chief justice had approached him in 2010 to bring an end to the interim Supreme Court. "Faiz came and told me that those at the Supreme Court then were accepting bribes openly and that he knew of it. He told me the names of those he had accused individually, and this is something I shall always say, by swearing on the Lord. ... Faiz told me that there is bribery at the Supreme Court now. He told me that the work done at the interim Supreme Court is not an execution of justice, but a trading business now, that the court must be brought to a stop," he said. Nasheed explained that he was unable to appoint a new Supreme Court bench as MDP did not have majority in the parliament. However, he said that he was glad that there was no one who had lost integrity on the original list of seven names he had sent to the parliament. The former president explained that his original nominees to the Supreme Court bench included parliamentarians, and that discussions were also discussed with family members of former President Gayoom. Nasheed said that Maamigili MP Gasim Ibrahim had requested him to nominate Ali Hameed, who is accused of extra-marital sex with prostitutes, to the Supreme Court bench. Gasim had promised MDP parliamentarians that he would spend any amount in order to get the appoint through, he added.