Somalia Cabinet led by Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali held a meeting in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday and agreed to allow a smooth transition of power to a new government.
During the meeting, they also discussed completion of transition process and current political issues including forthcoming presidential and speaker’s election, saying the polls would signify democracy.
“We are also looking forward to an equally democratic progression running up to the election of a new president of Somalia,” they said in a press statement.
Prof Ali commended the cabinet members for ensuring a smooth end to the transition period and hailed their commitment to the process.
He stressed that his cabinet will smoothly hand over power to the new president.
“My government is ready to hand over power to a new Federal Government when formed,” he said.
According to a roadmap agreed on by the main political groupings in Somalia, the term of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) ended on August 20 with the establishment of a federal parliament, which replaced the transitional federal parliament that served for eight years.
The members of the new parliament are expected to elect a president; the contestants include the incumbent TFG President, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden.
The outcome of the envisaged election will culminate in a process that transforms TFG into a permanent government after more than two decades of chaos and anarchy in the Horn of Africa country.
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