Somali disbands interim poll committees

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Somali disbands interim poll committees

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) - The country's interim electoral committees have been disbanded after leaders of the federal and regional governments failed to inked deal inclusive agreement to hold parliamentary and presidential elections.

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MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) - The country's interim electoral committees have been disbanded after leaders of the federal and regional governments failed to inked deal inclusive agreement to hold parliamentary and presidential elections.

Mid this month, Somalia’s Lower House members had passed a resolution to extend mandate for the parliament and president. The bill was subsequently signed into law by president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo.

In a meeting with members of the committees on Tuesday, Somali Deputy Prime Minister Mahdi Guled announced the dissolution of the Federal Indirect Elections Team (FIET) and the Elections Complaints and Resolution Committee.

According to sources, the deputy prime minister ordered the electoral officials who had been living in hotels in Mogadishu for the last six months to vacate their rooms by April 25.

The development comes barely two weeks after the country's Lower House and President Farmajo passed resolution and signed into law respectively.

The resolution directs the National Independent Elections Commission (NIEC) to organize elections in two years based on a one-person-one-vote basis. But the move drew condemnations from the local politicians, some of regional states as the international community.

Last Monday, President Farmajo urged the African Union to lead talks on a process that would lead to a free and fair elections in the country.

"I welcome @_AfricanUnion to take a leading role in facilitating an election process in which every citizen elects their representatives through free and fair elections. All Somali stakeholders will actively participate in the dialogue on the future of our democracy," President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed said on Twitter.

A statement by DRC government whose president is chairperson of AU said that the president of DRC welcomed Farmaajo’s initiative to resolve horn of Africa nation’s current stalemate.

Somalia’s was to hold elections early year but disagreement between the country’s stakeholders had led the country to fail to hold elections on time.

President Farmajo and leaders of federal member states had held several rounds of talks and later agreed on a framework for indirect elections on 17 September 2020 but later the leaders have repeatedly failed to work out the voting system.

Early this month, the leaders finally convened at Mogadishu’s international airport, which is guarded by AU troops, negotiations collapsed after four days.