Opposition Members have claimed that DRP as the majority party in the Special Majlis are endorsing proposal which the party wants and rejecting proposal which they do not want to pass without any considerations to the best interests of the Maldivian people.
The afternoon session of the Special Majlis held yesterday to proceed with the voting on the Transitional Chapter (TC) was thrown in to a vicious circle of raising points of orders when the chair commenced calling for votes on the proposals concerning duration of the President and the People’s Majlis during the transitional stage. The morning session ended just before proposal number 24 was put to vote. Before proposal 24 was put to vote at the yesterday’s morning session of the Majlis MP for Male’ Ibrahim Ismail raising a point of order said with the Majlis endorsement of the clause proposal 20, the president, the cabinet, the people’s Majlis and other constitutionally empowered institutions will lose legal authority. Ibra further said this will eventually lead to country going astray. At this point yesterday’s morning session was thrown in to mayhem. Verbal attacks at a personal level and raising points of orders was the order of the day.
At the yesterday afternoon session of the Special Majlis, heated arguments continued on the subject of proposal 20 and proposal 24. The proposal submitted by Deputy Speaker Shaheen Hameed titled “Continuation of the President and members of the people’s Majlis in their positions” stated that until such time as the next presidential elections can be held and the next parliamentary elections can be held , the present President and present People’s Majlis will continue to remain in office.
When disagreements between members erupted on the issue, the Chair decided to call for vote on proposals concerning the duration of the President and the People’s Majlis during the transitional stage. When the opposition saw that out of these proposals only proposal which favored DRP were being passed, tensions increased and the floor was soon engulfed in arguments and points of orders. Opposition soon increased raising points of order. MP for Male’ Ibrahim Ismail , MP for Laamu Atoll Ricco Moosa Manik , MP for Meemu Atoll Ahmed Shafeeg, MP for Raa Atoll Ali Waheed and Lhaviani Atoll member Hussain Ibrahim protested loudly on the endorsements of the proposals by majority party DRP. Responses were provided by Nasheed Legal Reform Minister and Ibrahim Shareef MP for Addu Atoll to the opposition.
When the Majlis was deeply engulfed in raising points of orders , arguments and verbal attacks, Chair, Speaker Qasim spoke at length and urged them to focus on work at hand and to appealed to members to set aside differences and work to complete the constitutional reform process as stipulated by the regulations of the Majlis.
At closing stage of the afternoon session of the yesterday’s Majlis , arguments and verbal attacks became so loud it appeared that Speaker Qasim was having difficulty in controlling the Majlis.When MP for Ha Ahmed Muiz started addressing the Majlis by taking point of order, shouting of other members went on forcing MP Muiz to raise his voice himself just to be heard over the others. MP Muiz supported Minister Nasheed and said the annulment of the current constitution on the day the revised constitution comes in to force will not be an issue.
Speaking at the last opportunity before the close of yesterday’s afternoon session, MP for Gnaviani Atoll Mohamed Ibrahim Didi very emotionally said even though the majority party can do what ever they want, there is not much the opposition can do about it. He said the final decision lies with the people.
Some opposition MP after coming out and standing near the eastern gate of the Majlis House shared their views on how the proceeding went with the members of the general public. In this regard two of the opposition MP’s said DRP’s majority became so effective as People’s Association members sided with DRP. Opposition MP’s pointed out that PA’s words and actions do not match.
The next session of special Majlis would be held today at 1430 hours.
The afternoon session of the Special Majlis held yesterday to proceed with the voting on the Transitional Chapter (TC) was thrown in to a vicious circle of raising points of orders when the chair commenced calling for votes on the proposals concerning duration of the President and the People’s Majlis during the transitional stage. The morning session ended just before proposal number 24 was put to vote. Before proposal 24 was put to vote at the yesterday’s morning session of the Majlis MP for Male’ Ibrahim Ismail raising a point of order said with the Majlis endorsement of the clause proposal 20, the president, the cabinet, the people’s Majlis and other constitutionally empowered institutions will lose legal authority. Ibra further said this will eventually lead to country going astray. At this point yesterday’s morning session was thrown in to mayhem. Verbal attacks at a personal level and raising points of orders was the order of the day.
At the yesterday afternoon session of the Special Majlis, heated arguments continued on the subject of proposal 20 and proposal 24. The proposal submitted by Deputy Speaker Shaheen Hameed titled “Continuation of the President and members of the people’s Majlis in their positions” stated that until such time as the next presidential elections can be held and the next parliamentary elections can be held , the present President and present People’s Majlis will continue to remain in office.
When disagreements between members erupted on the issue, the Chair decided to call for vote on proposals concerning the duration of the President and the People’s Majlis during the transitional stage. When the opposition saw that out of these proposals only proposal which favored DRP were being passed, tensions increased and the floor was soon engulfed in arguments and points of orders. Opposition soon increased raising points of order. MP for Male’ Ibrahim Ismail , MP for Laamu Atoll Ricco Moosa Manik , MP for Meemu Atoll Ahmed Shafeeg, MP for Raa Atoll Ali Waheed and Lhaviani Atoll member Hussain Ibrahim protested loudly on the endorsements of the proposals by majority party DRP. Responses were provided by Nasheed Legal Reform Minister and Ibrahim Shareef MP for Addu Atoll to the opposition.
When the Majlis was deeply engulfed in raising points of orders , arguments and verbal attacks, Chair, Speaker Qasim spoke at length and urged them to focus on work at hand and to appealed to members to set aside differences and work to complete the constitutional reform process as stipulated by the regulations of the Majlis.
At closing stage of the afternoon session of the yesterday’s Majlis , arguments and verbal attacks became so loud it appeared that Speaker Qasim was having difficulty in controlling the Majlis.When MP for Ha Ahmed Muiz started addressing the Majlis by taking point of order, shouting of other members went on forcing MP Muiz to raise his voice himself just to be heard over the others. MP Muiz supported Minister Nasheed and said the annulment of the current constitution on the day the revised constitution comes in to force will not be an issue.
Speaking at the last opportunity before the close of yesterday’s afternoon session, MP for Gnaviani Atoll Mohamed Ibrahim Didi very emotionally said even though the majority party can do what ever they want, there is not much the opposition can do about it. He said the final decision lies with the people.
Some opposition MP after coming out and standing near the eastern gate of the Majlis House shared their views on how the proceeding went with the members of the general public. In this regard two of the opposition MP’s said DRP’s majority became so effective as People’s Association members sided with DRP. Opposition MP’s pointed out that PA’s words and actions do not match.
The next session of special Majlis would be held today at 1430 hours.
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