Deputy leader of the main opposition party Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP), Umar Naseer, has said he is confident of surviving any no-confidence motion put forward to terminate him from his post of party leadership.
Daily newspaper Miadhu reported that a DRP member as claiming that a no-confidence motion to remove Umar Naseer from his post had been presented to the party’s council.
Naseer said he had also heard rumors of a no-confidence motion brewing against him.
”But then I clarified it with [party leader] Ahmed Thasmeen Ali, and he assured me that no such motion was planned or discussed,” Naseer said. ”So it was just a rumor being circulated.”
He acknowledged, however, that a no-confidence motion to sack him was ”very likely to happen”.
For such a motion to succeed however, a two-thirds majority would be needed, and Naseer said he was confident that such a majority could not be reached in order to sack him.
Prior to the DRP Congress Naseer was very vocal about the need for primary elections within the party to select its presidential candidate, however the party opted to retain its system of automatically putting the party leader forward as a candidate.
”There have been no internal splits in DRP,” Naseer said, ”but as we are a large political party, we do have some disagreements over some issues between different people.”
”The biggest disagreement between us is the issue of primaries,” he explained: ”I want to hold primary elections six months prior of the next presidential election.”
He said that there were “lots of people” who supported the primaries.
”I did not discuss this with [Thasmeen], I do not know what his side is on this,” Naseer said. ”During the last congress, he said he did not support holding primaries.”
Naseer said he wanted the DRP’s presidential ticket open for every member, which he believed would increase popular support for the party.
”Many prosperous people would join the party if we kept the party’s presidential ticket open, that way we can strengthen both our financial position and political position,” Naseer explained.
He said that an issue of unpaid salaries to some DRP staff members was ongoing, but added that it was an internal issue he did want to share with the media.
”The biggest issue for me, being the deputy leader of DRP, is the challenges I am being faced by the government,” he said, adding that this included ”torture, tear gas being arrested. ”
He said that while he would try to make the party’s presidential ticket open to everyone, “I have not decided yet whether or not to run for the next presidential election myself.”
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Who is joker? Don't give him any media attention.
The failed joker .
I wonder why Minivan even publish about him.
He is just not newsworthy.
Coming from Umar Naseer, it is hard to decide if he is telling the whole story. But how can Thasmeen not 'discuss' the issue before at all but can confirm that 'no-confidence motion is very likely to happen'? Is he the one who is submitting the action then? Or else he must have discussed it sometime before. The deceipt of these people are so abundant that it is really hard to conceal all of them even for these professional fraudstars. LOL.
Is that the backbone breaker that even Gayoom could not tolerate in the NSS?
well the drp'ians have elected him to their vice leader, we should follow him, he is news worthy... i love him talking about torture, there is very few who got taken to police station around 1990-1997 that didnt get a blow from Umar naseer or manik
DRP surely needs a strong leadership. Presidential ticket cannot be open for just anyone. I dont even want to dream with Umar Naseer as a presidential candidate. Not even with Thansneem with his debts. DRP should take in people like Nasheed (Kutti) who are clean, with good educational background and experience in civil Svc sector. Thasneem,Ali Waheed & Umar Naseer cannot take DRP to win next presidential election.
@ HassanK
You have misconceived what is written.
It is not Thasmeen who said that 'no confidence vote against Umar is likely to happen.'
It is Umar Nasser who said that. LOL
This is again stale news. I wish Minivan news is more into breaking news than stale news.
Umar Naseer's failure to clean wrap the back-bone case, has already cost DRP rotten eggs on their Zaeem on international arena. How can DRP ever forgive Umar. Umar Naseer - President of Alarms ..... Umar Naseer - Chairman of Submarine (not sandwich) .... Umar Naseer - Director General of Dhonjeymuge. Umar naseer - Future Zaeem of DRPA. Umar Naseer - The Maldivian Dheboageri. Umar the epitome of narcism.
even a Maldivian child of 5 years knows Umar Naseer has a history of torturing severely his fellow Maldivians while he was a cop.