Mogadishu (RBC) The lawmakers of the Federal Parliament of Somalia are getting prepared today on Sunday to hold first sitting to discuss the fresh motion against the Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon and his cabinet, RBC Radio reports.
The parliamentary session is expected to be chaired by the Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Osman as the draft motion submitted by more than 160 lawmakers to be circulated during the house sitting.
On Saturday in a meeting by the 15 permanent sub-committees of the parliament announced that the fresh motion will face parliamentary debate on Monday.
Members of Somalia Federal Parliament on Thursday tabled a new motion against the country’s cabinet of ministers amid a growing rift between President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon.
It is the second motion tabled against Shirdon’s government by the parliament within six months.
The motion alleges the the cabinet for lacking the capability to perform its tasks and failed to resolve several issues within the cabinet’s mandate.
The motion came as a serious rift between President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon grows into parliament debate. According to media reports President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had asked Prime Minister Shirdon to resign after he had excluded some of the president’s ministerial picks for a new cabinet but the Prime Minister refused, saying he had the constitutional right to select cabinet ministers.
Analysts say that it is merely the parliament vote who will decide between the top government officials when such rift arises.
RBC Radio
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