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The United States is urging the Somali leadership to complete the current electoral process and ensure that it is credible. The election of the Senate is over, but that of Parliament continues to be delayed. As for the opposition, which denounces fraud, it has decided to boycott the process. However, it is these two chambers that must meet for the election of the new president, expected for nearly a year.
With our correspondent in the region, Florence morice
« An election organized on time and accepted by all is crucial for the future of Somalia “: The message, broadcast Wednesday, December 15, emanates from the United States Embassy in Mogadishu and is addressed to the regional presidents of the country. They are responsible for organizing the election of future deputies.
However, for the moment, only two regions have really started the process: the Galmudug and the South-West. On Monday, the federal election implementation body raised the tone and gave the latecomers 48 hours to get started. In the process, the Jubaland authorities promised to comply.
But at this point it is already certain that the date of December 24, recently set for the presidential election and already postponed several times, cannot be respected. Why such blockages? ” It’s politics », Answers the researcher Omar Mahmoud, specialist in Somalia at the ICG. ” All the actors in charge of the process act according to their personal interests », He explains.
And to these delays is added the opposition boycott, who accuses President Farmajo of using fraud and corruption to elect his relatives and threatens with not recognizing the results of the polls. In the South-West, the federal body has also annulled the election of two deputies for irregularities and ordered the local authorities to start the vote again. Without follow-up, for the moment.
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