‘JP will protect President Solih’s presidency’

Leader of joint parliamentary group of the government coalition, the MP for Kimbidhoo constituency, Abdulla Riyaz, has said that Jumhoory Party (JP) will be the party to protect the presidency of Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.

MP Riyaz made the statement at the campaign launch of the JP Leader, Qasim Ibrahim’s political advisor and the former Defence Minister, Colonel-retired Mohamed Nazim for the parliamentary election.

Speaking at the ceremony, Riyaz said that JP will win the parliament election in April and enter the parliament strong and together and protect the government in the parliament as well.

He said that JP has capable, experience figures representing the party in the parliament election to achieve this goal and requested the public to vote for JP candidates.

While MP Riyaz has made this remark, the President of MDP and the former President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has said that the current government needs an MDP members in the parliament to sustain it.

JP Leader Qasim Ibrahim also took part in Nazim’s campaign launching last night and indirectly criticized the former President Nasheed yet again.

The leaders of the government coalition are yet to agree on how to divide the constituencies.