Hiiraan Online
Thursday, May 7, 2015
President Sharif Hassan Sheikh of SWA & President Sheekh Ahmed Mohamed Islaam (Madobe) of IJA
BAIDOA (HOL) ---The formation of Jubbaland administration's parliament seems to be an explosive political move for its neighboring Southwestern state which accused it of violating a previous power-sharing deal by not giving equal members to the region in the new parliament.
Under the deal, the two sides agreed the allocation of parliamentary seats among stakeholders within each clan according to Somalia's power sharing formula called 4.5.
Despite numerous complaints from certain clans, the Kismayo-based Jubbaland administration has recently formed a parliament with the new legislators are expected to be sworn into their offices this week.
Ugas Hassan Abdi, the information minister for the South-Western state has lambasted the Jubbaland administration of infringing the deal between the two regions, calling the international community to cease supporting it.
The development is threatening to set back the implementation of the country's federalism system as the apparent political rivalry may deepen the country's political crisis.
No comments could be reached from Jubbaland administration on the development. The two regions are the offspring of Somalia's federalism system as the government seeks to spread it across the country, however, political analysts predict more pitfalls and clan rivalry a contest over institution-building, and may represent something of a turning
point in the federal project.