The presidential party was defeated in the parliamentary elections on 1 June. Democratic progress has been hailed as far as Europe.
Somaliland’s “international partners” have no complaints law election on June 1. In a statement released on Tuesday, European countries and the United Kingdom simply congratulated Hargeisa on the “success” of its electoral process, “its strong commitment” to “strengthen democracy”, its efforts towards gender equality. groups ”.
Rare sequence
It is true that such a sequence is rare in the Horn of Africa. Remember that disagreements over Somalia’s presidential election drove the country to the brink of civil war once again last spring.
In Somaliland, on the other hand, it was first and foremost a patient-political dialogue that made it possible to reach an agreement on the electoral commissions, controversial for fifteen years, which had repeatedly postponed the vote. Then the vote itself was fair and just, observers said. And on Sunday night, the results fell: the main opposition party, Wadani, could form a majority with another opposition party, UCID, to lead parliament and reduce the president’s room for maneuver. the presidential election at the end of 2022.
Praise the head of state
For analyst Rashid Abdi, from Sahan Research, we still have to hire the head of state “for openly resisting any attempt by his party to use his office to cheat,” he said. For that we owe a great debt to him. “
This “cohabitation” is a new opportunity for this self-proclaimed state in 1991, and not officially recognized, to praise the seriousness of the exercise of democracy, and even as Somalia is entangled in a political crisis difficult to resolve.
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