{"id":321880,"date":"2011-03-19T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/19\/somalia-lawmakers-plan-presidential-elections-in-august\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T09:59:23","slug":"somalia-lawmakers-plan-presidential-elections-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/19\/somalia-lawmakers-plan-presidential-elections-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Lawmakers Plan Presidential Elections in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"45.4819352812\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garoweonline.com\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garowe Online<\/a> (Garowe)\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>18 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Somali Transitional Parliament speaker, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden said on Thursday presidential elections would take a place inside Mogadishu before the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be a committee that organizes presidential elections before August this year including African Union, International Observers, IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development), United Nations and International community,&#8221; the speaker said in a statement read by Head of parliamentary committee of information affairs, Lawmaker Awad Ahmed Ashara in a Press Conference.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>The statement says the government&#8217;s mandate is planned to expire in August this year and the lawmakers will elect speaker and deputy speaker before the mandate expires.<\/p>\n<p>Somali Members of Parliament voted last month to extend their mandate three more years, but Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has called for a review of the extension, while the parliament speaker has said they won&#8217;t reverse the decision. Also the international community condemned the extension but Lawmaker Ashara described their decision as deplorable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somali lawmakers have the right to extend their own mandate, and the international community and other nations can&#8217;t boycott the parliament&#8217;s decision,&#8221; Aden said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia hasn&#8217;t had a functioning central administration since 1991, when clan militias overthrown Siad Barre&#8217;s Adiministration.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103190039.html\" title=\"Somalia: Lawmakers Plan Presidential Elections in August\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Somalia: Lawmakers Plan Presidential Elections in August<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Garowe Online (Garowe) 18 March 2011 Somali Transitional Parliament speaker, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden said on Thursday presidential elections would take a place inside Mogadishu before the end of August. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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