The Council of the Union of Somali Presidential candidates has on Thursday persuaded the Speaker of the Upper House Abdi Hashi Abdullahi to attend the signing ceremony of the electoral agreement between the heads of the federal and state governments.
In a meeting at his residence with the Speaker of the Upper House, they convinced him to attend the meeting and that any grievances would be addressed and amicably resolved.
The Speaker of the Upper House will go to the Afisiyoni tent to attend the signing ceremony of the Somali electoral agreement.
A letter from politicians loyal to Abdi Hashi last night said it was not part of the conference’s decision to end the meeting without Abdi Hashi’s decision on Somaliland’s seats.
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble announced on Monday that he had “reached a consensus meeting on electoral issues with Somalia’s Upper House Speaker Abdi Hashi Abdullahi”.
Speaker Abdi Hashi claims to be the highest-ranking Somaliland politician representing the federal government and wants to influence decisions on how to manage seats in the northern regions.
Mustaqbal understands that the main issue is how the parties will divide the members of the committees that will administer the election seats in the northern regions.
