Parliament of the Maldives has announced changes to the committees and the register of members for the new session.
The register of members was changed after parliamentarians Mohamed Nazim and Abdulla Riyaz resigned from Jumhooree Party (JP). They left JP to form a new party, and with their resignations, JP currently has three members in the parliament.
The new register shows Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) with 65 members, Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) with six members, People's National Congress (PNC) with three members, and Maldives Development Alliance (MDA) with two members, as well as eight independent members.
Furthermore, changes were made to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security Services, with Ilyas Labeeb replacing Imthiyaz Fahmy and Ali Azim replacing Hisaan Hussain in the committee. Ilyas Labeeb and Ali Azim were previously members of the committee but were temporarily sidelined as part of the inquiry into the security breach related to the May 6 terrorist attack against Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed.