The Civil Court has dismissed the case seeking to cancel the MDP Presidential Primary held last January and hold the primary again.
In a tweet, MDP said that the case against the party that sought to nullify the primary and hold it again has been thrown out of the Civil Court and that the Court said that the plaintiff of the case had no authority or vested interest to file such a lawsuit.
Three cases were filed at the Civil Court in relation to the highly contested MDP Primary in which President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih secured himself the Party Presidential ticket ahead of Party President and Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Nasheed.
The Civil Court only accepted one of the cases filed at the Court.
The case accepted by the Civil Court said that many members of MDP were axed from the party against the regulations on membership removal and that around 39,000 members were removed like this.
The complaint asked the court to issue an injunction on MDP ordering it to re-hold the primary as a presidential primary held without the removed members cannot be deemed legitimate.
The complaint also asked the court for an injunction to stop MDP from handing over its Presidential Ticket to the winner of the primary but MDP has handed over the ticket to President Solih at a special rally held in February
President Solih defeated Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Nasheed in the first-ever competitive presidential primary held by MDP with a margin of 8925 votes.
