Opposition on Sunday again filed a censure motion to unseat parliament speaker Abdulla Maseeh.
The censure motion was previously filed with the signature of 26 lawmakers while only 15 is the required number.
Taking to twitter, chief government lawmaker Ahmed Nihan Hussain Manik revealed that opposition had filed the motion with the signatures of 31 lawmakers this time.
Details remain sketchy but the move led by the now opposition comes ahead of the no-confidence motion against deputy speaker Moosa Manik slated for Tuesday.
Despite the failure to unseat the speaker on March 27, opposition had vowed to re-file the motion against Maseeh.
Opposition lawmakers had protested the move but the motion was put to vote despite angry opposition lawmakers surrounding the deputy speaker in an attempt to block the vote.
The protests prompted the deputy speaker to delay the vote by nearly an hour. Attempts to resume the sitting was again blocked which resulted in the naming of as many as 13 opposition lawmakers. Some of the lawmakers had to be removed forcibly by soldiers entrusted with parliament security.
After removing the named lawmakers, when it was finally put to the roll-call vote, the remaining opposition MPs had walked out and the motion was defeated comfortably with 48 government lawmakers voting against the motion.
Opposition lawmakers had later refused to accept the result claiming that the government had influenced parliament proceedings to change the vote.
Opposition had also claimed that the electronic voting system had been rigged after it emerged that opposition aligned lawmaker Ahmed Mahloof who is in prison was recorded as having voted along with deputy speaker Moosa Manik.
The country has plunged into fresh political strife after the main opposition leaders penned a historic treaty against the government.
United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) have become the latest to join the chorus of international scrutiny Maldives has been facing since the failed censure motion against
Maseeh.
But the backlash from the failed attempt to unseat the speaker has led to several key opposition figures being questioned by police over various allegations while opposition Jumhoory Party (JP) leader Gasim Ibrahim was arrested on Thursday.
The business magnate had been taken into custody over recent allegations of bribing fellow lawmakers and making incitements to overthrow the government.
He has since been remanded for six days.
Most of the island nation's international partners have all echoed the call to find political common-ground among the ruling parties and the opposition.
