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Somalia’s parliament removed the 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 the 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 said.
MPs have today gathered to discuss the upcoming elections and the Independent Elections Committee’s report. Leaders of the federal government and federal member states have issued on Wednesday a communique after five days of the meeting, saying that election with the general agreement should be held on its schedule. President Farmajo to come up with a new Prime Minister to reach one-person-one-vote election, in which the President has agreed with FMS leaders it is impossible to hold on its time.