MOGADISHU, Somalia – Outgoing Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo convened a closed-door meeting with foreign diplomats on Saturday at the Afisyonie tent at Mogadishu airport.
Sources close to Villa Somalia said Farmajo went to the venue early in the morning to hold talks with international partners five days after Parliament in the lower house extended its mandate by two years, a move the Senate rejected as unconstitutional.
Axadlesources revealed that the foreign diplomats are making a final effort to convince Farmajo to return to the talks between the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the Federal Member States (FMS).
Farmajo requested the meeting with the partners in Afisyoni after hearing that they have a planned summit in Halane to issue a joint response to the concept of extension and the current situation in Somalia.
Diplomats believe that the competitor to the negotiations will provide the best solution to the solution of the protracted electorate in Somalia, after the country failed to go to the polls twice since December 2020.
First, the country was scheduled to hold parliamentary votes in December 2020 to elect a new parliament, which was expected to elect a president, but not everything happened because of the endless standoff.
The country’s goals for an inclusive and peaceful election flopped with Farmajo’s first four-year term as president of the Federal Republic of Somalia expiring in February 2021.
Somalia is now facing its worst political crisis following the vote in the House of Commons to illegally extend Farmajo’s previous mandate, and the international community warns that the movement could throw the country into a conflict.
AXADLETM
