Maldives President Abdulla Yameen

Maldives: Army Occupies Parliament, Opposition Not Allowed to Bring No-Confidence Motion Against Speaker

:: The Maldivian Army on Tuesday occupied Parliament and did not allow opposition members to bring no-confidence motion against the Speaker.

The opposition members were roughed up by military personnel.

The opposition members had submitted the no-confidence motion against the Speaker on July 3.

Earlier, President Abdulla Yameen had manipulated the judiciary to subvert the July 24 session, scheduled for taking up the no-confidence motion against Speaker Abdullah Maseeh. On that day, the Majlis premises was locked down and the parliamentarians were disallowed from entering the building, which was otherwise a constitutionally-sanctified place to be visited by the lawmakers.

Huge deployment of the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) and the Specialist Operations (SO) Police personnel was made to ensure that the MPs do not succeed in entering the Majlis.

Out of the 85-member Majlis, the Yameen regime is pursuing concocted legal cases against 24 lawmakers to subjugate their will to make them his stooge.