Somali poll officials meet in Kenya over boundaries delimitation


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NAIROBI, Aug. 7 (Xinhua/GNA) – Somalia’s
electoral officials and stakeholders met in Nairobi on Tuesday to sharpen their
knowledge on elections management, organizers said.

The four-day intensive training backed by the
African Union Commission and the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) aims to build
participants’ understanding of the constitutional and electoral legal
frameworks for Somalia.  Fr

NAIROBI, Aug. 7 (Xinhua/GNA) – Somalia’s
electoral officials and stakeholders met in Nairobi on Tuesday to sharpen their
knowledge on elections management, organizers said.

The four-day intensive training backed by the
African Union Commission and the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) aims to build
participants’ understanding of the constitutional and electoral legal
frameworks for Somalia.  Francisco
Madeira, the AU Special Representative for Somalia said most of the participants
in the training have very clear ideas on the complexity of the process and they
are effectively discussing what needs to be discussed.  

“How to go over and solve these
complicated issues, how to confront the issue of clannism in Somalia, with its
traditional cultural influences, where women’s rights are not necessarily; what
the general western conception is; or what the general democratic practice
is,” Madeira said in his opening remarks. 

The meeting comes as the Horn of
Africa nation prepares to move towards ‘one-person, one-vote’ elections in
2020/2021 in which the National Independent Electoral Commission (NIEC) is
working to achieve this. Analysts said a key step in creating a stable and
democratic political system is the registration of political parties, in line
with the Political Party Law of the Federal Government, which was passed by the
Somali Parliament in June 2016.

GNA


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