The Parliament today granted approval for the four ministers of President Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik's cabinet, though the Parliament's Committee that had assessed the ministers had approved only one. The Government Accountability Committee of the Parliament assessing the four Ministers had only approved Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed as the Gender Minister, while Housing Minister Mohamed Muizzu, Health Minister Dr Ahmed Jamsheed Mohamed and Environment Minister Dr Mariyam Shakeela had not received the approval of the Committee.
However, the Parliament had approved the four appointments to the ministerial cabinet with a healthy majority during the session today.
Dr Jamsheed had received 42 votes in favor out of the 72 MPs present today while 30 had voted against his appointment as the Health Minister.
The rest of the three Ministers had been approved with exactly the same number of votes with 46 in favor while 26 MPs voted against.
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