International Community will not support an election based on 'selection process'

[Suldaanka]

SOMALIA INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS’ JOINT STATEMENT FOLLOWING DHUSAMAREB FGS-FMS MEETING

Mogadishu, 24 July 2020 – Somalia’s international partners* hope that the important meeting between  Somalia’s Federal Government (FGS) and Federal Members States (FMS) leaders in Dhusamareb represents the long-awaited resumption of constructive collaboration between the FGS and the FMS leaders. 

The partners welcome the leaders’ decision to form a technical committee to work out election modalities for the 2020 national elections.  As the committee’s work moves forward, broad-based agreement among Somali stakeholders will be necessary. The partners reiterate that the electoral process must move the country away from selection processes and toward direct elections, as codified in the Provisional Federal Constitution. International partners therefore urge all Somali stakeholders to pursue their efforts quickly to attain these objectives and keep the country on a stable political path, in the interests of the Somali people.

In addition to the electoral model, international partners also urge Somali leaders to agree on a plan to implement other aspects of Somali democratic reform, including the Constitutional Review, the formation of a multiparty democracy and creation of a functional Judicial Services Commission, Human Rights Commission, and Constitutional Court. They also underscore the need to ensure that candidates, parties, women, youth, minority communities and the media across the country can express themselves freely, especially during the election period.

*Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, European Union, France, Germany, Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, and the United Nations

 

https://unsom.unmissions.org/somalia-international-partners’-joint-statement-following-dhusamareb-fgs-fms-meeting

[maakhiri1]

Good move, they are biggest shareholders as they will pay for it

[Suldaanka]

It is going to be very interesting how this whole thing transpires over the next few months. 

[Tillamook]

Hapless, helpless and hopeless h@bros; always on the sidelines with your thumbs up your rears.

Enjoy your popcorn cheerleading on the empty bleachers of Somali politics, while everyone else remains in the thick of it on the pitch.

[Peace Action]

Selection every four years is better than secessionst  parliament not even selected in the past 15 years.  

[Peace Action]

Insults are the weapon of the weak. Again when was the last time parliament election was held? 2005. 

[Peace Action]

I am gald you aknowledge I am correct in my ascertion that your parlianment had no selection let alone election since 2005. The clan system is alive and well in the whole of Somalia and just holding elections as a way to justify secession is not going to work.  

I know secessionst boys here in SOL wish Somalia is burning and their enclave has broken windows. Keep wishing bad for Somalia, still you are part of it. Carry on and keep denigrating Somalia until you realize one day we are in the same ship.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

We have been saying for years you don't want political solutions  nor do you want to face your problems. Your doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. The burning of your Somalia is on you, not on Somalilanders. Somalilanders  since 1991 were consistent in their efforts to keep the peace of the region.  You expect other people to solve your problems for you. We have  a different mindset. 

 

 

[Peace Action]

8 hours ago, Timacaddeh said:

Are you incapable of reading comprehension? SOMALILAND HAS HAD THREE ELECTIONS SINCE 2005. No one has acknowledged any of your filthy lies.

No one wishes bad on Somalia. Stop your calaacal. You people are capable of tearing your own country down without any input from anyone else.

Calm down son and don't insult. Just answer this question, when was the last election for Somaliland parliament?