Hiiraan Online
Sunday, July 24, 2011
In a highly anticipated parliamentary sitting at government headquarters in the restive capital Mogadishu, lawmakers are likely to ratify the new cabinet that is set to replace the former Farmaajo government.
The agenda for the Somali lawmakers also include deliberation on a number of issues in which the new government headed by DR. Ali is set to carryout in its transitional period that will end later next year.
Dr. Ali is
highly expected to address the bloated parliament over his new strategy to help
Somalia get up to its knees and transform itself from being a failed state to a
fragile one.
One lawmaker told Hiiraan Online (HOL) that the legislatures may or may not ratify the new cabinet since there have been dissent voices within members of the house.
The likely minority MPs are seemingly set to shoot down the proposed government by massing MPs to join their side. But one analyst who spoke to HOL says MPs are near to ratify following intense lobbying within the government of president Sharif.
Parliamentary sources say some MPs are taking the political heat to oppose the new government citing indiscrimination against Somalia’s 4.5 formula, that is always the basis for dividing power within the transitional institutions.
Former ministers who were left out in the new government are set to play a key role in opposing the new faces to take over the country’s governmental structures.
An issue of concern is also the creation of a bloated cabinet even after the new prime minister promised to right-size his government.
A total of 18 ministers are on the list bulged by a whopping 27 assistant ministers, making the new cabinet slightly less than the previous one but yet above what the fragile Somali economy can afford.
Somali reporting by Mohamed Haaji in
Mogadishu, translation and editing by Abdullahi Jamaa