Somaliland

Taiwan Ally Somaliland To Conduct Local & Parliamentary Elections In May

Taiwan Ally Somaliland To Conduct Local & Parliamentary Elections In MayTaiwan Ally Somaliland To Conduct Local & Parliamentary Elections In May

Hargeisa (PP News Desk) — Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi today signed an executive decree on the timeframe for local and parliamentary elections that will take place on 31 May 2021.

After a day of government visits from African based foreign diplomats that proved in large part highly contentious with much of the Somaliland diaspora on social media, the president’s signature has set in place the emerging nation’s next step on the road to full recognition by the international community.

Somaliland is viewed by many as a breakaway state of Somalia sandwiched between Ethiopia to the south, Somalia’s region of Puntland to the east, and the Gulf of Aden to the north.

Last July, Taiwan and Somaliland announced mutual recognition and have since exchanged ambassadors with a range of bilateral agreements having been signed in the intervening months.

On the domestic front, the Somaliland National Electoral Commission has recently successfully concluded voter registration in its outlying regions.

Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi signing the decree on local and parliamentary elections to be conducted in May.

The Somaliland Council of Elders yesterday held a session on the parliamentary term for the sitting MPs. “The parliamentary term will end on the day parliamentary elections take place” reads a statement read out by the First Deputy Chairman of the Somaliland Council of Elders.

The current Somaliland Parliament will have served until 2022, based on a decision reached when uncertainty on local and parliamentary elections first emerged following disagreements among the three main political parties of Somaliland.

This article first appeared in the © Puntland Post, 2021 and is republished in edited form with permission

Mark Buckton

Mark is a journalism vet of 20 years with most of those years spent in Tokyo, Japan, as a columnist for The Japan Times and numerous other publications. His work has appeared on CNN, in the BBC, NPR, and in several dozen other media forms and publications across five continents.

Share
Published by
Mark Buckton
Tags: AfricaelectionsEthiopiaGulf of AdenHorn of AfricaMFA SomalilandMOFA TaiwanMuse Bihi AbdiSomaliaSomalilandTaiwan
4 years ago

Recent Posts

Canadian wildfire smoke prompts air quality advisory for New York

An air quality health advisory has been issued for New York City and several regions…

5 days ago

Cambodia calls for ceasefire as Thailand’s Navy joins its Armed forces in the conflict

Tensions along the Thailand-Cambodia border have flared into the deadliest conflict between the two nations…

7 days ago

U.S. and Israel condemn France’s move to recognize Palestinian state by September

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has strongly denounced French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to…

1 week ago

Trump administration secures $221 million antisemitism settlement with Columbia University

President Donald Trump’s administration has reached a $221 million settlement with Columbia University, resolving multiple…

1 week ago

US President Trump briefed by Attorney General that his name was in Epstein files

Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Donald J. Trump earlier this year that his name…

1 week ago

US House Speaker Mike Johnson cuts summer session short to avoid Epstein files vote

In a surprise move Tuesday, Speaker Mike Johnson announced that the House of Representatives would…

1 week ago