UK on behalf of IC sends a warning letter to SL

[ramzy2277]

This comes after their delegation arrived in Hargeisa 2 days ago trying to convnince the government not to postpone the parliamentary elections,their request were refused.

British Office



Hargeisa



16 SEPTEMBER 2016

SUBJECT: SOMALILAND PARLIAMENTARY AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

The International Community expresses serious concern over the President of Somaliland’s decision to delay Somaliland’s Parliamentary March

2017 elections. This unnecessary delay will harm public and international confidence in Somaliland’s democratisation process and will have

implications for the international community engagement with Somaliland. The postponement has been announced without a clear legal or

constitutional basis and despite the Chief Justice’s ruling that the Presidential and Parliamentary elections should take place jointly, in March.

The people of Somaliland have queued in record numbers to register to vote in both elections, and have a legitimate expectation that they will

be allowed to exercise this vote. The International Community has provided substantial support to this electoral process on the basis of

Somaliland’s commitments to timely, concurrent Presidential and Parliamentary elections. The imminent and successful completion of the voter

registration process determines a clear timeline for the polls in March 2017, which we cannot afford to change. Donors have invested heavily in

the electoral preparation and do not want to see this commitment undermined and depleted by continuous delays. The International Community

will not be able to fund the additional costs that the decision to delay the Parliamentary elections will incur, the burden of which will therefore

regrettably fall on the Somaliland people. The International Community agrees that Somaliland reconciliation is an important objective. We call

on the President to urgently set out a clear process, with timelines, to achieve a fair seat allocation formula and political representation for all

Somalilanders in the election of their Parliament. We reiterate that fixed term Parliamentary elections now would still enable both reforms in the

parliamentary seat allocation and a reconciliation process to take place during the Parliamentary term. We therefore urge the President of

Somaliland to reconsider his decision, and to hold the Presidential and Parliamentary elections together in March 2017.

ON BEHALF OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY [US, UK, EU, UN, SWEDEN, DENMARK] AND THE SOMALILAND ELECTIONS DONOR WORKING GROUP

[Ben Dover]

Its fake, bad writing is a dead giveaway.

[ramzy2277]

Its fake, bad writing is a dead giveaway.

http://www.somalilandpress.com/subject- ... elections/

http://www.somalilandinformer.com/somal ... elections/

http://hadhwanaagnews.ca/detail.aspx?id=187632

http://oodweynemedia.com/?p=96058

http://www.somalilandsun.com/developmen ... process-ic

[JSL3000]

I dont know why they gave a warning like its a weather advisory.

[barca252]

if true Siilanyo is ragheedi, not even democracy can mess with his money

[Ben Dover]

Its fake, bad writing is a dead giveaway.

http://www.somalilandpress.com/subject- ... elections/

http://www.somalilandinformer.com/somal ... elections/

http://hadhwanaagnews.ca/detail.aspx?id=187632

http://oodweynemedia.com/?p=96058

http://www.somalilandsun.com/developmen ... process-ic

Exactly.

[Musa26]

if true Siilanyo is ragheedi, not even democracy can mess with his money

how does the president gain money from keeping the current parliament.. go on because im interested to hear a wacky new conspiracy theory

[theyuusuf143]

The president himself is not interested to stay in power. Parliament elections can be held after each region gets his fair number of seats in the house. If The IC are not able to provide their contribution by the time Somalilanders finally agree how to share the seats, I don't understand what's their agenda. Our unity is more important than the Democratization process, we can nominate our Representatives without elections same like we did during the National charter period. We don't need the IC contribution if they don't care this issue

[ramzy2277]

Well, the have all the right to be upset about the political manipulations of kulmiye . This government had all the time in the world to prepare for the parliament elections since 2010 till 2017, they brought a proposal to the ppl ,parliament,guurti and IC to postpone 2013 parliament elections and coin it with the presidential elections which was set to be on 2015,provided that they will introduce a high tech voter registration to eliminate vote rigging ( which was much needed) ,after so much drama ( alayelehe muxu cali guray dagalamya,this is a scam by kulmiye for extension ,no one listened )......it was postponed till 2015, time passes ,and no one,incuding government or parliament discussed the most important obstacle that prevailed since 2005 which is the saami qaybsi of the MPs, time passed until last minute, and government packed by guurti got unjustified extension for the presidency for a bonus of 2 years , strangly the parliament elections were automatically included in that postponement by the guurti,political parties were not happy , then supreme court decided to approve the guurti decision and made reiterated that this is the final postponement ,and the dates are FIXED , again the goverment and parliament slept on this subject until neck of time ,and somehow the ball was thrown to the parties to decide the saami qaybsi of the MPs, and they throw the ball further to the president who over shot the ball out of the goal and broke all the agreements and the supreme court rulling and postponded the parliament elections

i was expecting the ppl to get upset by this move, but it seems they stopped caring about politics , i dont support the foreign intervention at all, but we cant continue delaying our problems to appease some clans here and there.

besides ,didnt we agree on one man one vote as means of selectiong president and parliament members, then whats with this saami qaaybsi...?!!....if we implement this saami qaybsi then whats the different between our political system and that of the konfur with their 4.5 formula ....?!

[ramzy2277]

https://youtu.be/smbTTeyGnro

https://youtu.be/_iYWM57wKlE

[TheGrumpyGeeljire]

The British can shove that letter up were the sun doesn't shine. They have absolutely no right whatsoever interfering in our domestic affairs.

f-king twats.

[Siciid85]

The British can shove that letter up were the sun doesn't shine. They have absolutely no right whatsoever interfering in our domestic affairs.

f-king twats.

They kinda do. They pay our bills partially. As self claimed democracy, we have to live up to standard expected of us. We cannot just have delayed election after delayed election without consequences

[Ben Dover]

If you've actually read the letter and cant see it is fake then you are part of the problem.

[TheGrumpyGeeljire]

It's fake. Stupid tabloid media.

[GalliumerianSlayer]

Governer Silaanyo more like. It sounds tacky when a Federal state's leader is called 'President'.