The Attorney General’s Office becomes a party to the proceedings in former President Abdulla Yameen’s presidential candidacy case that is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court of the Maldives.

The office says that the intervention was made after receiving a request from the highest court in the country. President Yameen filed the case on Wednesday as the Elections Commission of the Maldives had rejected his presidential candidacy on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court would hold the first hearing of the case tomorrow. The main opposition PPM also is a party to the proceedings on a leave granted by the highest court.

The legal team at the Elections Commission found that President Yameen was serving a prison sentence that was longer than 12 months disqualifying him from running in the September presidential race.

If a candidate in a general election is rejected by the Elections Commission, the law says that the person should be granted a period of five days to appeal at the highest court in the country which is the Supreme Court of the Maldives.

The law also says that the court should not take more than seven days to decide on such a case.