Fourteen cabinet members of
Somalia have signed on Sunday a
manifesto, urging Somali Prime
Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed to
resign and leave the office to solve
a long standing rift between him
and President Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud.
Interior and Federalism Minister
Abdirahman Godah Barre
confirmed that 14 cabinet
members including him signed the
manifesto which urges the PM to
compromise and leave the office.
“We signed the letter and sent to
the PM to convince him to leave
the office in order to safe the
government,” Barre said.
“The President has lost his
confidence in the PM. The
parliament tried to sit and discuss
about a no-confidence motion
against the PM,” he added.
Barre, who is a close ally to the
president, described the move as a
solution if the PM accepts and
smoothly leaves the office.
The ministers that signed the
manifesto include the interior
minister, the defense minister, the
finance minister, the foreign
minister, the justice minister.
The prime minister didn’t comment
whether he would accept the
suggestions of his cabinet
members that consist of 23
ministers, but the 14 ministers
threatened to resign if he refuses
to accept their suggestion.
The rift between the PM and the
president, which sparked division
in the parliament and government
shutdown, started when the PM
made a cabinet reshuffle that
affected the president’s key ally
Farah Abdulkader who is the
minister of the constitution and
justice.
The Somalia parliament had
organized two failed sessions in
one week, after pro-PM members
of the parliament protested in the
parliament and blocked the
speaker to open discussion that
would finally vote for a motion
against the PM.
Somalia president Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud Monday flies to
Denmark to attend the New Deal
conference in Copenhagen, but the
U.S. government withdrew its
delegations from that conference in
protest of the current rift of the
Somalia leadership.
Somalia have signed on Sunday a
manifesto, urging Somali Prime
Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed to
resign and leave the office to solve
a long standing rift between him
and President Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud.
Interior and Federalism Minister
Abdirahman Godah Barre
confirmed that 14 cabinet
members including him signed the
manifesto which urges the PM to
compromise and leave the office.
“We signed the letter and sent to
the PM to convince him to leave
the office in order to safe the
government,” Barre said.
“The President has lost his
confidence in the PM. The
parliament tried to sit and discuss
about a no-confidence motion
against the PM,” he added.
Barre, who is a close ally to the
president, described the move as a
solution if the PM accepts and
smoothly leaves the office.
The ministers that signed the
manifesto include the interior
minister, the defense minister, the
finance minister, the foreign
minister, the justice minister.
The prime minister didn’t comment
whether he would accept the
suggestions of his cabinet
members that consist of 23
ministers, but the 14 ministers
threatened to resign if he refuses
to accept their suggestion.
The rift between the PM and the
president, which sparked division
in the parliament and government
shutdown, started when the PM
made a cabinet reshuffle that
affected the president’s key ally
Farah Abdulkader who is the
minister of the constitution and
justice.
The Somalia parliament had
organized two failed sessions in
one week, after pro-PM members
of the parliament protested in the
parliament and blocked the
speaker to open discussion that
would finally vote for a motion
against the PM.
Somalia president Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud Monday flies to
Denmark to attend the New Deal
conference in Copenhagen, but the
U.S. government withdrew its
delegations from that conference in
protest of the current rift of the
Somalia leadership.
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