MDP lawmakers unhappy over Aslam’s total seat count

9 months ago

Several lawmakers from the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) expressed unhappiness on Tuesday, after Speaker Mohamed Aslam, also a member of MDP, declared the total number of seats at the Parliament as 87. In light of the Supreme Court ruling in February, which established that the Parliament cannot disregard seats of lawmakers who resign when counting the total, Aslam proposed