The ruling PNC has crossed 10,000 members and submitted it to the elections.

The president, who was sworn in as the President on November 17, 2024, Dr. Muizzu contested the presidential election on a PNC ticket.

After the elections, the PNC had announced that the party’s president would be president Dr.Mohamed Muizzu. Hussain Mohamed Latheefwas named as the vice-president.

PNC is chaired by Senior Minister at the President’s Office Abdul Raheem. The PNC has been trying to increase its membership to more than 10,000 a few days ago. So far, the party has submitted forms of over 10,000 people to the Election Commission for the exercise. Even now, a large number of people are joining the party.

Vice President of EC Ismail Habib said the commission had received a large number of PNC forms. So far, more than 5,000 forms have been processed and there are over 5,000 forms even without processing them.

Therefore, the number of forms submitted by the PNC to the EC is more than ten thousand. With this, the party will get funds from next year’s state budget if the party completes the processing of forms before the budget is passed.

The budget for 2024 is currently being studied in Parliament and is expected to be passed by the end of this month.

According to the Political Parties Act, only those parties registered with the Election Commission with a membership of 10,000 will be eligible for the assistance provided by the state budget. The funds from the state budget will be available only if the members meet the same number before the next year’s state budget is passed by parliament in the current year.

At present, the strength of the party is 3,159, according to the Election Commission’ data.