The Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) has accused the Elections Commission (EC) of failing to register members who have shifted to the DRP from the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP).
Mohamed Hussain ‘Mundhu’ Shareef, spokesman for the former president and DRP member in charge of the Noonu atoll branch, said he noticed the problem when 66 newly-joined DRP members from the island of Miladhoo in Noonu Atoll failed to appear on a list from the EC.
”As soon as we figured out these people were missing from the EC list, we scanned it to see whether people from other atolls were missing as well,” he said.
That recount revealed many more DRP members from Haa Alifu Atoll and Gaafu Aalifu Atoll missing from the list, Mundhu claimed.
“People who shifted from Adhaalath party and Qaumeee party were in the list, but those who came from MDP were not there,” he said, accusing the MDP of influencing the EC.
He said that the DRP had sent a letter to the EC two weeks ago to clarify why the people were missing from the list “but they have not responded.”
President of Elections Commission Fuad Thaufeeq said the claims made by the DRP that members were missing from the list were untrue.
He said that by law people could only be members of one political party, “and sometimes when people try to join a party without resigning from another registered party, we will not register them.”
Thaufeeq furthermore stressed that the commission was working independently ”and nobody can influence us.”
Spokesman for MDP Ahmed Haleem said the EC was an independent institution and accused the DRP “of inventing a new story about MDP everyday”
”They spread these type of rumours just to gain popularity,” he said. “They can’t get famous without saying something against us,” he said.
DRP MP Ahmed Mahloof said he had heard no information about the issue while MDP MP Moosa ‘Reeko’ Manik claimed “nobody from MDP would resign to join DRP.”
”The EC works independently; it was elected by the parliament,” Moosa said. “They were elected not only by the vote of MDP MPs but DRP MPs voted for them as well.”
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as someone working in the mdp office I was surprised when i read the drp was complaining exaclty about what we are complaing about -- the fact that drp members defecting to mdp are not registered to mdp even with their signatures and two witnesses confirming change of party. We get a letter of rejection from EC saying "existing member of another party". THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS MDP IS SCRUTERNISZING THE RECORDS ONE BY ONE AND RE-SUBMITTING THESE "FUNNY" CASES WITH PROOF. In other words our mdp staff are efficient and run like a party office whereas the drp office ran like a former govt ministry, depending on patronage all this time and they dont know any other way.
boy oh boy. rnt these guys have gone crazy. i mean they actully dont know wt to do. i think a dictatorship cannot be changed to democracy even if you wash it a million times. and they r brought up from corruption and violence, what else they will know. Plus i dont recog DRP as a political party, i just think that it's maumoon home office. better watch boys old pal. they are going out of controll