Hiiraan Online 
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The bloated Somali parliament endorsed Ali, a highly educated Somali-American in one of its first sittings for the past few months when a rift between the transitional institutions of the western-backed government led to heated political sickness in the Horn of Africa nation.

Somali lawmakers endorsed the new premier by the show of hands in the house that for the first time in months appeared unanimously united. Ali was endorsed with 437 votes out of the 443 members present.

Only two Somali lawmakers voted against Ali’s takeover of the controversial office of Somali prime minister, while the rest did not took any stand during the critical house vote.

Present during the crucial parliamentary vote was Somalia’s president Sheikh Shariif and the endorsed Prime minister Ali who many speculate as competent as Farmaajo was.

Somalia’s obstinate parliamentary speaker Sharif Hassan chaired the voting session where HOL reporters in Mogadishu described as a smooth process which has unveiled some form of political maturity in a country that is emerging from been a failed state to a fragile one.

Ali will now have to take the political heat by his own and name a new cabinet within the next thirty days in order to pave way for an efficient government that can help stabilize Somalia within an unprecedented period of one year

Any new cabinet that Ali will name in the next few days will also serve the next transitional period of one year as per the agreement that was signed in Kampala by the president and speaker

HOL correspondents in Mogadishu said, during the voting process, Somalia’s divided lawmakers put aside their political differences to endorse Ali.

Many of them who voted for Ali were opposed to the controversial Kampala Accord that resulted a wave of political uncertainty particularly within the top officials of the Somali government.