PA not decided on transitional issue

31 December 2007
Report: Soodh

People’s Association (PA) has not held any discussions on transitional arrangements, PA Vice President and MP for Gaafu Alif Atoll Abdullah Jabir has said.

In an interview given to Miadhu Daily yesterday, Jabir said that members of PA have never discussed about measures to be taken, in order to make the upcoming Presidential elections a free and fair elections.

“As we have not yet decided, I cannot tell PA’s thinking on the matter. But, I don’t support any form of transition arrangement. I don’t believe that there has to be any transition arrangements” Jabir said.

Maldivian Democratic Party, Islamic Democratic Party, Adhaalath Party, Social Liberal Party and the New Maldives movement had jointly formed an opposition alliance to enforce the government to hold free and fair elections next year and this alliance is calling for a transition government.

However the government has since refused to support a transition government. Speaking at a general meeting of the Dhivehi Rahyithuge Party, DRP, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Leader of the party as well as the country’s President had said that DRP will not support the notion of establishing an interim government to govern the country during the transitional period. In his address to party members at the meeting, Leader of DRP, Maumoon said that there is no political and constitutional need to establish such an interim government. He said an interim government is normally established when the peace and security of the country is lost due to civil unrest or by any other means. He further said the country does not need such an arrangement and the he will not support the notion