Somalia’s parliament removed Prime Minister Hassan Khaire from his post in a vote of no confidence on Saturday for failing to pave the way towards fully democratic elections, the speaker said.
A whopping 170 of parliament’s 178 MPs backed the no-confidence motion, and Khaire’s ouster was immediately endorsed by President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who had appointed him as prime minister in February 2017.
“After learning that the government had failed in its promise to prepare a clear plan that paves the way for one-person-one-vote elections in 2021… parliament undertook a vote of no confidence against the government and its prime minister Hassan Ali Khaire,” parliamentary speaker Mohamed Mursal told reporters.
Somalia has set itself the goal of holding a one-person, one-vote national election in early 2021 — as opposed to a complex system in which special delegates pick lawmakers who then vote for the president — in what would be its first full democratic election since 1969.
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