Deputy parliamentary group leader of ruling party Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) MP Ilham Ahmed resigned from the post on Wednesday, a day after he along with eight government lawmakers signed an opposition led censure motion to unseat the parliament speaker.
Member of parliament for Dhangethi constituency Ilham Ahmed, on Wednesday, resigned from his post of and chair of the parliament’s Economic Affairs Committee.
The Dhangethi MP had informed the decision to PPM parliamentary group leader Ahmed Nihan Hussain Manik on Wednesday.
After the now opposition coalition in March had filed a second motion to unseat speaker Abdulla Maseeh, the government had engineered an amendment to the parliament rules of procedure raising the number of lawmaker signatures required to file a censure motion against the speaker and his deputy from 15 to 42.
The opposition had filed the third censure motion against Maseeh with 45 lawmakers which included 10 lawmakers from the ruling party.
Ilham was appointed as the chair of the parliament’s Economic Affairs Committee on 21 November 2016. He was elected as parliamentary group deputy leader on 14 November 2016. He was also also one of the first five leading members in the creation of PPM.
MP Ilham was the deputy Jumhoory Party (JP) before he switched to the ruling PPM.
Meanwhile, Dhidhdhoo MP Abdul Latheef Mohamed had left the ruling party on Tuesday.
MP Ilham resigns from two posts --
