Wednesday April 13, 2022
Mogadishu (HOL) - Somalia's federal electoral commission is finalizing preparations for the swearing-in-ceremony for Somalia's incoming parliament in Mogadishu on Tuesday.
The lawmakers who have received their certification will arrive in the Afisiyoni compound inside Mogadishu's international airport to be formally sworn in.
FEIT's chairman, Muse Guelleh Yusuf, led a delegation to Baidoa on Monday to resolve the ongoing electoral dispute with South West State.
Following meetings with state officials, the federal elections commission certified the results of two of the three disputed elections in the region.
South West's President Abdiaziz Laftagareen recently called on lawmakers representing his state to boycott the certification process after Laftagareen rejected a decision by the federal electoral commission to nullify the results of three seats.
HOP#103, which Saredo Mohamed Abdalla won, will be the only election re-run in Southwest State because Abdalla's opponent did not meet the age threshold.
There are currently 73 lawmakers from the South West constituency in Baidoa who have not yet received their parliamentary certificates.
The fate of 16 seats in Jubabalands' Garbaharey constituency has yet to be decided on the eve of the swearing-in-ceremony.
President Farmajo's embattled former spy chief - and current national security advisor - Fahad Yasin has not received his FEIT certification for his seat, which has been nullified by the electoral commission for electoral irregularities and scheduled for a re-run. He will likely be excluded from Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony.
On Monday, Fahad Yasin filed a petition with Somalia's nascent Supreme Court, which has not handled an election case in its recent history.
The Farmajo-appointed Chief Justice previously said that the court could not hear cases that arise from this indirect election because the format was crafted out of a political agreement and not constitutionally.
If all goes as planned, Somalia's 10th parliament, whose official mandate expired on December 27, 2020, will make way for Somalia's 11th parliament and a new mandate will begin.
A delegation led by the chairman of the Federal Electoral Commission (FEIT), Muse Guelleh Yusuf, has recently arrived in Baidoa, the capital of the Bay region.