MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s parliament on Wednesday greenlit the 18-member Nationwide Electoral and Border Committee, appointed by the cupboard only a day earlier, throughout a tumultuous session fraught with chaos and uproar.
Speaker of Parliament Adan Mohamed Nur introduced that 169 members voted in favor, whereas 6 opposed, thereby ratifying the Federal Electoral Committee, which the federal government intends to supervise one-person, one-vote elections for each regional and federal presidents slated for late 2025 and 2026.
Within the aftermath of the session, opposition MPs advised the media that the parliament lacked the required quorum to approve the committee, denouncing the speaker’s claims as false and asserting that, consequently, no approval had been granted.
Amid the escalating tensions between the federal authorities and Jubaland, one MP warned that if the federal authorities continues its navy deployments geared toward toppling Jubaland chief Ahmed Madobe, they are going to open a brand new entrance in Mogadishu, although he shunned specifying whether or not it might be navy or political in nature.
The appointment and approval of the electoral fee comes simply days after Jubaland President Ahmed Madobe secured a 3rd time period in a controversial oblique election, fiercely opposed by the federal authorities, which stays steadfast in its dedication to holding one-person, one-vote elections nationwide—a imaginative and prescient more and more questioned by many, given the federal authorities’s restricted management and the pervasive insecurity that continues to afflict the nation.
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