A motion submitted by MDP vice president Mohamed Shifaz during a
sit-down of the party’s national congress Monday evening received
unanimous backing.
The move comes in light of a report by Haveeru last week that Jameel along with former top officials of the present government are set to team up with MDP against the government.
Former youth minister Mohamed Maleeh Jamal, former minister at the President's Office Abdulla Ameen would join MDP to work against the government.
The coalition is set to be officially announced during the MDP rally slated for Thursday in the capital Male.
Jameel who is in self imposed exile in the United Kingdom had told Haveeru via telephone that the decision to join MDP came in the wake of rampant government corruption and blatant violation of rights.
"Independent institutions have lost their independence and the people have been deprived of justice. So we must unite against the government to protect the people's rights," he said.
Jameel, first appointed to the cabinet in former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s administration, resigned from his post as the justice minister and joined the pro-democracy movement led by MDP in mid 2000s. He and his associates backed MDP leader Mohamed Nasheed’s bid for presidency in the 2008 elections, and went on to serve as the civil aviation minister in the MDP government. However, he was later sacked.
Jameel, who was handpicked by then Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) candidate Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom as his running mate for the 2013 presidential election, was impeached in July by the government controlled parliament in what had been widely regarded as a move by then tourism minister Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor.
The move comes in light of a report by Haveeru last week that Jameel along with former top officials of the present government are set to team up with MDP against the government.
Former youth minister Mohamed Maleeh Jamal, former minister at the President's Office Abdulla Ameen would join MDP to work against the government.
The coalition is set to be officially announced during the MDP rally slated for Thursday in the capital Male.
Jameel who is in self imposed exile in the United Kingdom had told Haveeru via telephone that the decision to join MDP came in the wake of rampant government corruption and blatant violation of rights.
"Independent institutions have lost their independence and the people have been deprived of justice. So we must unite against the government to protect the people's rights," he said.
Jameel, first appointed to the cabinet in former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s administration, resigned from his post as the justice minister and joined the pro-democracy movement led by MDP in mid 2000s. He and his associates backed MDP leader Mohamed Nasheed’s bid for presidency in the 2008 elections, and went on to serve as the civil aviation minister in the MDP government. However, he was later sacked.
Jameel, who was handpicked by then Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) candidate Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom as his running mate for the 2013 presidential election, was impeached in July by the government controlled parliament in what had been widely regarded as a move by then tourism minister Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor.
source- http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/66067?e=en_mid
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