Press Secretary for the President Mohamed Zuhair has said that President Mohamed Nasheed will not hold mid-term elections, as pledged.
This was for two reasons, Zuhair told Minivan News: “Firstly it is not in the constitution, and secondly, when one makes a pledge to someone, and if recipient of the pledge did not repay the sincerity of the person making the pledge, he does would not have to fulfill it.”
Leader of the Dhivehi Qaumy Party(DQP) and former advisor to the President Dr Hassan Saeed claimed yesterday during an appearance on VTV’s ‘Hot Seat’ programme that the reason why MDP won the presidential election was the party’s promise of a mid-term election.
Zuhair claimed that the people who was trying to make the president hold mid-term elections were trying to gain fame in the political field.
”It is a pledge the president and vice president made during the campaign,” he acknowledged. ‘But after the recipient betrayed the person who made the pledge, it’s not wise to turn back and say ‘What about your promise?’.”
Zuhair claimed that when Dr Saeed was given a position as the president’s advisor, he acted in opposition to the government.
”He refused to come out for work,” Zuhair said, ”and then he started to act like an opposition leader.”
Vice President of the Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) Umar Naseer said it was “a must” for the government to hold mid-term elections.
Umar said that the people voted President Nasheed to power for “only two and a half years.”
”People voted Nasheed because he said he would hold mid-term elections,” Umar said. ”The President said that to increase the number of his constituents, and people elected him because of [the pledge].”,”
He said that it was constitutional to hold the mid-term elections.
”President and Vice President can resign in a letter according to the constitution article 121 [a] and [b],” Umar explained.
He said the president was afraid to hold the mid-term election because he was confident that he would not get elected.
Leader of DQP Hassan Saeed and the party’s Secretary General Abdulla Ameen did not respond to Minivan News at time of press.
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