Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
20 April 2011
Mogadishu — The president of Somali interim federal government on Wednesday announced that he is planning to run for second term in office by precipitating Somalia’s presidential election.
After having meeting with some 200 Somali members of the parliament and ministers in Villa Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said the mandate of the government is approaching to an end.
He said that he fully supports holding the presidential and parliamentary elections inside the country after 20 years of conflict and civil war.
Ahmed, the president of war-ridden Somalia also pointed out that it is necessary dialogue and mutual understanding must take place among them.
The statement of Somali leader comes as the mandate of Somalia’s TFG is due to wrap up in August this year.
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