Kinbidhoo MP Abdulla Riyaz has said that parliament speaker Abdulla Maseeh should take the dignified approach and resign, since the opposition coalition is working to oust him anyway.

Speaking to the press on Monday, MP Riyaz warned the pro-government speaker that if he does not resign, the opposition lawmakers will remove him with a no-confidence vote.

No-confidence motions against speaker Maseeh was proposed at the parliament three times in 2017. The first motion proposed in March of last year had signatures of 26 MPs but failed after the parliament, citing an error in the voting system, counted the votes by asking the lawmakers individually.

The second motion was proposed with 31 signatures in the following April but was rejected after citing a recent amendment to the parliament regulation, which states that a no-confidence motion needs signatures from 42 MPs.

The third no-confidence motion in July was proposed with signatures of 45 MPs, which include lawmakers from the ruling party, but was rejected after the Elections Commission declared that some of the signatories have been removed from parliament.