Motion against deputy speaker tabled for April

The no-confidence motion against deputy parliament speaker Moosa Manik has been tabled for April 11th.

MP Manik, formerly a longstanding member of the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party, and other parliamentarians were informed of this on Monday.

15 lawmakers filed the motion against Manik on March 22nd, which was spearheaded by MP Faris Maumoon. The lawmaker had also pushed the same motion against speaker Abdulla Maseeh, which entered parliament on Monday. The motion against Maseeh had failed following a controversial vote.

Manik responded to the motion by saying that the mandate of the deputy speaker is simply to carry out duties allocated to him by the speaker, adding that the speaker has never asked him to act unlawfully.

He was confident that the motion would fail as well.