Somaliland election will be held again, according Siilaanyo aides.

[galbeedi]

According  sources close to  the president of Somaliland, the November 13 election could be repeated within a year. " The Somaliland election commission will announce the result tomorrow, but the opposition party will refuse to accept the verdict and will appeal to the supreme court" the unnamed source said..

 

A closed meeting has taken place with the NEC chairman , the president and the chief justice. According to these sources, the Waddani  party lawyers had already prepared their motion to dismiss the results of the election, due to irregularity that had taken place. Among the infraction sited by the lawyers are:

 

a) election boxes containing extra amount of voter ballots.

 

According to election commission rules each ballot  box must contain exact number of votes which must not exceed it's capacity. It might contain less ballots than it's capacity, but can not overflow. We do not know exactly how many boxes have been designated as overflow, but they do exist and the commission has  found some. 

 

b) copy of stamped ballot booklets have been found by voters and handed to the opposition. Although they belong a polling station in Berbera, No one really knows if they were stolen or deliberately used to inflate the ruling party numbers.

 

c) under age children voting. The  phenomenon of under age voting was huge across Somaliland except Awdal, Saaxil  and Sanaag . What made this issue as one of the biggest reasons to overturn  the election is, the  international observers who are still in Somaliland had recorded both in Gabiley and Hargeisa.

 

d) The failure of the Somaliland election commission to broadcast or release the early results of the election which was known across Somaliland. This action could be describes as " the tale of two elections".  In the real election, both the NEC representatives who were counting the votes and the three party observers had done their duties and transferred the counted boxes to the government for transport. With 1647 polling station, by 3pm , there were no lineups to vote. How can anyone transfer counted, signed, and sealed ballots to a ruling party people without announcing the result. This is what broke the camel

 

e) The detention and expulsion of the opposition party observers made the election " not free". Intimidation n and the monopoly use of security forces for the Kulimiye party made the election , " not fare"

 

My sources told me that these any other incidents which are recorded by camera, dates, and names of those involved will be entered by the lawyers. Even Chairman Cirro said that there were 1200 incidents.

 

President Siilaanyo would not allow chaos under his watch. If  a winner is announced and the opposition refuses to accept, that is huge in any where in the world and  even more so where political parties literally campaigned that ,"our tribe is more than yours". 

 

My prediction is after they announce Muuse Biixi winner , Waddani will file a motion, and the court will overturn the result and order a new election. In fact, there were more fraud and tampering of ballot boxes than the Kenyan election. By the way ,overturning elections and making them transparent is normal around the world. In 2016, the Austrian election was overturned by courts, so does the Kenyan, Ukrainian and others. Sometimes the harmony of the community is more important than being tough and arrogant. If you are a wise person , defensively you would not ignite this civil war. 

 

There are  major reasons  that makes people prone to reject results after these election  infractions, among them:  Seven years of rule which is almost one year minus two terms. People has seen looting of the public purse, abuse of power and trust  and the weakening of the institutions. Almost everyone in Somaliland knows the precarious condition of the president, yet due to traditional  and cultural respect, they decided to let him finish his term with grace. They know he  is almost like Robert Mogabe of Zimbabwe, unable to fitful his duties,; they know his family and tribal kids are  running the government, yet they said " Dhaqan keena waa ceeb in qof lagu caayo  da' iyo cudur". Also, among the SNM community, he is their hero, and they were willing to close their eyes and  forgive him. 

 

Further more, the Muuse Biixi community was co-ruling with Siilaanyo for the last seven years,  and since his hostile takeover of the party for the last two years, he was the one who was  nominating the cabinet members. his clan control finance and customs, foreign ministry, industry, army and between. The finance minister,  who is not elected and must act as a neutral civil servant,  went to Burco and publicly asked that community to make an alliance. It is illegal for a government minister to use her office and public purse for tribal hegemony. Since Ahmed Siilaanyo was leaving,  the opposition decided to be quite and respectful, but that does not mean people had suddenly forgiven the looting and abuse of power.

 

For most people , it is unacceptable to reward greed and bring to power the same  crowd that brought them misery and inflation for the last seven years. 

 

MY understanding is Siilaanyo will get another year of extension and the election will be held within a year.

 

[Saalax]

Galbeedi you make one mistake though of thinking that the "supreme court" is independent

from Kulmiye meddling.  This is not UK sxb.

[Tillamook]

So you mean to tell us that this election fiasco is yet another of Silanyo’s surreptitious schemes that he is cunningly orchestrating  to illegally extend his mandate, yet again?

 

Personally, I wouldn’t put it past the old geezer.😆

 

 

 

 

[Che -Guevara]

Let's hope not. It is a time for them to move on.

[Barwaaqo]

3 minutes ago, Che -Guevara said:

Let's hope not. It is a time for them to move on.

Walawyntuna kala wanaagsan.