The Somali parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali PHD

 

Former Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi fought very hard   for Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (PHD)  to be the next Somalia Prime Minister, A  fellow Upstate New York Somali-American and  close friend, position to make the best of a difficult circumstance

Khudbadii Ra'iisul Wasaaraha cusub ee uu Baarlamaan​ka ka hor jeediyay 28 June 2011

The Somali parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali  (PHD) to take over the office after the recent resignation of Mohamed Abdullahi .Mohamed  announced his  resignition  follow  an illegal and dangerous   agreement ending the troubled country's transitional administration . "Considering the interest of the society and in compliance with the illegal and dangerous  Kampala accord, He siad  I decided to quit to compromise for the national interest," Abdullahi Mohamed Somali-American told reporters in Mogadishu, thanking those who supported him.                     Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali PHD

The bloated Somali parliament endorsed Ali, a highly educated Somali-American in one of its first sittings for the past few months when a rift between the transitional institutions of the western-backed government led to heated political sickness in the Horn of Africa nation.

Somali lawmakers endorsed the new premier by the show of hands in the house that for the first time in months appeared unanimously united. Ali was endorsed with 437 votes out of the 443 members present.

Only two Somali lawmakers voted against Ali’s takeover of the controversial office of Somali prime minister, while the rest did not took any stand during the critical house vote.

Present during the crucial parliamentary vote was Somalia’s president Sheikh Shariif and the endorsed Prime minister Ali who many speculate as competent as Farmaajo was.

Somalia’s obstinate parliamentary speaker Sharif Hassan chaired the voting session where tf.sf reporters in Mogadishu described as a smooth process which has unveiled some form of political maturity in a country that is emerging from been a failed state to a fragile one.

Ali will now have to take the political heat by his own and name a new cabinet within the next thirty days in order to pave way for an efficient government that can help stabilize Somalia within an unprecedented period of one year

Any new cabinet that Ali will name in the next few days will also serve the next transitional period of one year as per the agreement that was signed in Kampala by the president and speaker

tf.sf correspondents in Mogadishu said, during the voting process, Somalia’s divided lawmakers put aside their political differences to endorse Ali.

Many of them who voted for Ali were opposed to the controversial illegal and dangerous   Kampala Accord that resulted a wave of political uncertainty particularly within the top officials of the Somali government.

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