MDP has completed enough signatures to remove Deputy Speaker of parliament Eva from office.

MDP’s PG leader Mohamed Aslam said 22 lawmakers had already completed their signatures to remove Eva. He said that the signing for Eva’s removal had begun on the personal initiative of some of the lawmakers, adding that more details related to the same would be revealed.

Villufushi MP Hassan Afeef, who presided over the no-confidence motion against Speaker Mohamed Nasheed, today in the parliament sitting decided to reject the no-confidence motion against Speaker Mohamed Nasheed.

It was expelled from the House on the ground that there was no enough details in the no-confidence motion, as required the rule of the house. Hasan Afeef, who presided over the meeting held this morning, said that the motion was submitted to the parliament in violation of the rules of the parliament. He said there is a provision in the parliamentary rules for the resolutions to be moved. Therefore, he said, the resolution should be taken off the table and its has to be brought to the parliament as a fresh petition again, to keep the rules in check.

Deputy Speaker Eva also refused to proceed with the matter, saying she did not believe that the matter could be taken up again after the issue, which was scheduled to be taken up in the morning session, ended without even the second session of the House.

Deputy Speaker Eva also refused to proceed with the matter in the afternoon session, saying she did not believe that the matter could be taken up again after the issue, which was scheduled to be taken up in the morning session, ended after taking petition off the table.

This is the second time that MDP lawmakers have moved a no-confidence motion against Eva in parliament. MDP had withdrawn the previous case after the first round of the last presidential election. However, after president Solih’s defeat in the first round of the election, MDP once again re-introduced Nasheed’s no-confidence motion in parliament.