EC fines 9 political parties due to incomplete audit report

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

combine3Election Commission (EC) has penalized 9 political parties due to incomplete audit report of the year 2008.

In a press statement released yesterday, EC stated that this was done as reports submitted were not in accordance to the political party regulation 2005.

The parties penalized include People’s Party (PP) , Maldivian Social Democratic Party (MSDP), Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP), Adhalat Party (AP), National Alliance (NA), Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) and Jumhooree Party (JP). These 7 parties have been fined with Mrf 20,000.

While the Islamic Democratic Party (IDP) and Maldivian National Congress (MNC) was fined with Mrf 30,000.

EC had given a duration of 30 days for these nine parties to pay the fine.

Prior to this, EC had penalized 3 more political parties besides the ones mentioned above. EC revealed that from these 3 political parties, only People’s Alliance duly paid the fines.

Reader Comments

  1. We need a law to be passed at Majilis. I simply dont like public money to be spend on political parties. Our constitution says nothing abt political parties.

    Posted by Hameed | December 10, 2009, 8:53 pm

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