Somalia’s federal parliament selected 14 of the 17 members on Tuesday to the organizing committee for the upcoming presidential elections.
The Speaker of the House of the People – or Lower House – Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nur (Madobe) chaired the plenary session, which nominated eight members to the 10-member Presidential Election Commission. They include:
MP -Mowlid Abdi Mohamed
MP -Ali Haji Dahir
MP -Nur Mustaf mukhtar
MP -Mohamed Ahmed Berey
MP -Mohamed Ibrahim Mucalimu
MP -Mohamed Ananug
MP -Omar Yusuf
MP -Fardowsa Mohamed Egal
Sheikh Aden Madobe said that the Lower House MPs would add the remaining three members in the coming hours.
Meanwhile, the Speaker of the Upper House, Abdi Hashi Abdullahi has yesterday appointed a committee of 6 members to the presidential election committee of the Federal Government of Somalia.They include:
Sen. Ali Mohamud Ga’al – Southwest
Sen. Prof. Abdi Ismail Samatar – Somaliland
Sen. Abdiqani Geele Mohammed – Putland
Sen. Farhan Ali Mohamud – Puntland
Sen. Ibrahim Awgaab Osman – Jubaland
Sen. Zamzam Abdullahi Ahmed – Hirshabelle.
Somalia’s bi-cameral parliament will directly elect the president of Somalia. While a date is not yet scheduled, it is expected to occur sometime this month.
However, a three-year IMF financial assistance package worth close to half a billion dollars will automatically expire on May 17. If it does lapse, it can jeopardize the disbursement of budget support grants and derail the plan for complete debt forgiveness.
