The Supreme Court has ruled that there is no legal basis to halt April 4 referendum on proposed constitutional changes.
The referendum is scheduled to determine whether the President should approve the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which seeks to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on the same day.
The case was filed by lawyers Aik Ahmed Esa and Ibrahim Shiyam, who argued that the question to be put to voters was unconstitutional and sought to block the vote.
Delivering the judgment, Chief Justice Abdul Ghani Mohamed said there is no specific provision in the Constitution or existing laws governing the inclusion of questions in a referendum ballot.
The five-judge bench concluded that the question could not be deemed unconstitutional and ruled that there were no grounds to prevent the referendum from proceeding.