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The corrected version of the Constitution document, which had been proofed for grammatical errors and administrative mistakes, was sent back to President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom on Friday evening, the President of the People’s Special Majlis Gasim Ibrahim said on Saturday.
Gasim said that the document had been sent back to the President after the requested corrections had been made. It was sent back three days after it was submitted to the Special Majlis for corrections.
“The administrative mistakes were corrected as required and it was sent back to President Gayoom,” Gasim said.
In the letter sent by President Gayoom to the Special Majlis last Tuesday, a total of 27 issues were raised. Gasim said that other than the corrections, President Gayoom had also asked to clarify some clauses in the constitution and that he had done so.
“For example, there was an instance where the word “Uththama Fandiyaaru” had been written as ‘Uththa Fandiyaaru’”, he said. “We missed that one.” He also said that there were also several instances of missing punctuation marks.
Gasim also said that with the latest batch of corrections there probably would be no more obstacles to ratifying the constitution on the scheduled date and that he was pretty confident everything would go as planned.
Male MP Ibrahim Ismail said yesterday that no changes had been to the issue raised by the President over clause 116 of the document, which required parliamentary approval for creating government ministries by the President, and that the clause had remained as it was when the constitution was passed by the Special Majis on 26 June 2008.
Last Tuesday, after the document was sent back to the Special Majlis for corrections, President Gayoom held a news conference in which he said that if no further issues were raised then he was considering ratifying the new constitution on 7 August.
