TheSomaliDiary

Another deadline for the completion of the parliamentary elections slated 15 th March has been missed. The international partners of Somalia showed grave concern over this repetitive delays of the election process. So far 16 seats to be elected at Garbaharrey of Gedo region remain very unlikely to materialise considering the rift between villa Somalia which controls the region and Jubbaland administration which has the authority for the state election process facilitation. Wednesday, March 30th, 2022. Prime Minister Mohamed Roble held talks with the General Secretaries of the Federal Parliament ahead of the swearing in of the newly elected legislators next month. According to a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister, the Lower House General Secretary Abdikarin Buhu and his Senate counterpart Ali Jamah met with the PM over preparations for the 11th Parliament. The meeting affirms the announcement by the Federal Indirect Elections Team mid this month which set the swearing ce

During the reporting month, The State Elections Implementation Team [SEIT] of the northern regions of Somalia/Somaliland concluded Lower House elections in the House of the People of the 11th Parliament. Parliamentary elections for the Northern Regions, which began on 1 November 2021, have seen the election of 46 MPs of the two Houses of Parliament representing Somaliland, with Deputy Prime Minister, Mahdi Mohamed Guled (Khadar) being the first member of Parliament to be elected in Mogadishu. Somalia’s election stakeholders including the Prime Minister and five state leaders representing South West, Jubbaland, Hirshabelle, Galmudug and Puntland have once again extended the completion time of the election process to March 15, 2022. This new extension came upon failure to meet the previous deadline, which was February 25, 2022. The country’s election stakeholders struggled to hold election, with polls delayed by more than a year. The announcement of the new election timeline came aft