and below is the google translation for those who cant read arabic:
The chief tribal leader to «ALBAYAN»: we live in full stability and work for the future:
The preservation of Somaliland's independence and its acceptance of international recognition is a present and even pivotal issue in the last election campaigns, which took place at the end of last year. Three candidates from the three political parties (the Somaliland Constitution allows for the establishment of only three political parties) : Mousi Behi Abdo, head of the Solidarity and Unity Party, who won the election; Abdul Rahman Mohammed Abdullah Aru, head of the National Party; and Faisal Ali and Rabi, head of the Justice and Development Party known as Awad.
The registered voters, who numbered 704 thousand voters, cast their votes in 1642 polling stations in six provinces, at a level of unprecedented turnout in the history of the elections, since the country declared independence.
There was a political precedent in Somaliland, where the outgoing president, Ahmed Mahmoud Selanyo, did not participate in the presidential election, where he gave up his party's candidate. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Mousi Behi's victory in this election as a candidate for the Solidarity, Unity and Development Party (Kulmiyya), the party that has ruled the country since 2000, was widely expected and opinion polls put him in the lead, despite the fierce challenge Who was represented by the other candidate, Abdurrahman Mohamed Abdullah Aru, head of the National Party, who exploited the political mistakes he said the ruling party and its leadership had committed during his rule.
The presidential election was characterized by the fact that all those who fought it, including President Behi, and the competing candidates from the generation of unity, who served in the Somali Republic and held political, military and civilian positions during the three decades following independence (the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s) In the military corps, during the reign of Mohamed Siad Barre, and reached the rank of pilot pilot, and participated in the Ogaden war between Somalia and Ethiopia (1977 - 1978).
The second candidate, Abdul Rahman Mohammed Abdullah, known as "Aru" (62 years), head of the opposition "National" Party, was a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Somalia, and included in administrative positions within the ministry, before being appointed consul and then ambassador to Somalia The former Soviet Union.
The third candidate, Faisal Ali and Rabi, 70, chairman of the Justice and Development Party, also worked in the 1980s, director of planning and construction in the Ministry of Public Works in Somalia, before being appointed Director General of the Ministry itself.
The birth of the "Somaliland Republic" was announced on May 18, 1991, about three months after the collapse of the central government in Somalia, led by the late President Mohamed Siad Barre. The announcement came during a conference of tribal leaders in northern Somalia, organized by the Somali National Movement In opposition to the Siad Barre regime, in the northern city of Baraa, under the name of the Barao Conference for Reconciliation and Self-Determination.
The declaration of independence from the democratic Republic of Somalia (as it was then known) and the return to the pre-July 1, 1960 borders, the date in which the Northern Territory of Somalia, which just four days before independence from Britain and the Southern Territory, He also gained independence from Italy on July 1, forming the Somali Republic.
Since its independence, Somaliland has entered the stage of building the institutions of a de facto state, despite its lack of international recognition. A republican system, a House of Representatives, a Senate, a government, a constitution and a system of elections for the peaceful transfer of power, as well as a national currency, a central bank, the flag and emblem of a special State, as well as security services (army, police and intelligence) About the Somali state.
Somaliland, in the far north-west of Somalia, is bordered by Djibouti to the west, Ethiopia to the south, and the Somali province of Puntland to the east. It has a long coastline on the Gulf of Aden, with a length of 740 kilometers. It has an area of about 137600 square kilometers.
The majority of the local population belongs to the Somali race, about 55 percent of the nomadic or semi-nomadic population and the Bedouin population, while 45 percent of the population lives in urban areas, the most important of which is the capital, Hergisa, with a population of 650,000. Others, such as Boro, Burma, Berbera, Iragabu and Las Anoud, in connection with the relationship with the central government in Mogadishu, Mogadishu is considered a "Somali Land", an integral part of the Somali Republic.
The tribes of Somaliland were therefore represented in the Houses of Parliament (the Senate and the People's Assembly), as well as their participation in government and other state institutions. But the chief Somali tribal leader, Sheikh Abdullah Ali Jouhar, "It has no political relationship at all with the Mogadishu government, and members of the Somaliland, who are part of the federal institutions, represent only themselves.
"We have nothing to do with Mogadishu," says Jowhar, a participant in the six-month Constituent Burma Congress, which included all the tribal leaders of Somaliland, as well as dignitaries and major merchants, in which the constitution under which this region is now governed. , We are a country in its own right. We chose this according to historical, geographic and ethnic data. He goes on to say that since the well-known Burma Conference, their country has not experienced a single shot and lives in full stability because they chose life and preferred to die.
