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<\/a><\/p>\nAbdulkadir Khalif<\/p>\n
26 December 2011<\/p>\n
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Mogadishu \u2014 A United Nations sponsored consultative meeting on Somalia’s Roadmap to Stability has concluded in Garowe town, the capital of the semi autonomous state of Puntland, 1,000 kilometres northeast of Mogadishu.<\/p>\n
One of the thorny issues at the meeting was good governance, which included parliamentary reform before end of the shelf-life of the current government by August 20, 2012.<\/p>\n
According to the Garowe Principle, the Somali parliament will be composed of 225 MPs that will be selected on the basis of the clan power sharing-formula of 4.5, that is an allocation for ‘one lot’ for each of four big Somali clans while 0.5 is allocated for a coalition of smaller clans.<\/p>\n
It will mean a marked reduction from the current number of 550 MPs.<\/p>\n
When the TFG was established in Kenya, following two years (2002-2004) of talks at Mbagathi, 275 individuals were selected as MPs.<\/p>\n
The number was doubled at the end of another reconciliation conference in Djibouti in 2008, boosting the legislators to 550. The next parliament will have a Chamber of Elders (a sort of Senate).<\/p>\n
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