Changing laws that gave people powers and telling them not to violate the law is a setback to rights: Faisal

Former Vice President Faisal Naseem has said that changing the laws that gave the people powers and freedoms, and telling the people not to violate the law, is a setback to rights. In a post made on "X" on the occasion of Republic Day, Faisal said that while the people have been given a Constitution designed to empower them, what is felt by the people today is that efforts are being made to narrow the people's rights and to narrow and eliminate the powers granted by the Constitution. Faisal said this is a matter for sorrow. He said that although it is clearly written in the Constitution that powers originate from the people and that those powers must also remain in the hands of the people, through laws the people's rights and freedoms are being narrowed, the doors of freedom are being closed off, and subjugation is not something that can be accepted. Faisal also said that this is the time for the people to defend the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. He said that narrowing and subjugating the powers and freedoms guaranteed to the people by the Constitution is not something that can be accepted, and noted that the three powers of the state are not the private property of the person in power. In addition, Faisal said that the judicial system, the People's Majlis, and the executive power are also not the property of the person who is in power, and that it is a trust that that person must safeguard by taking up those powers. Along with that, Faisal called for a lawful government to be run in the Maldives without departing from the Constitution.