News Desk
MALE’ — Ahmed Nazim has been removed as president of the People’s National Congress for the Dhiggaru constituency, days after he resigned as Deputy Speaker of parliament ahead of a no-confidence vote against him.
The motion to remove Nazim from the constituency post was submitted by President Mohamed Muizzu in his capacity as party leader. The PNC used powers granted to its leadership under the party’s Senate regulations to push through the removal. No reason has been given publicly.
Nazim’s departure from the Deputy Speaker’s chair came as the PNC-dominated Majlis was moving to unseat him through a formal no-confidence process. He got ahead of the vote by resigning but denied the allegations in the resolution his own party had filed against him.
In a statement at the time, he said the accusations were baseless and that he had carried out his duties without discrimination, and without bending to political pressure.
The sequence of events is notable. A ruling party MP, holding a senior parliamentary post, is pushed out by a no-confidence motion filed by his own party, resigns before the vote, and is then stripped of his constituency leadership role by the party president. What drove it remains unclear.
Nazim has not commented publicly since his removal from the post.
