Somaliland: NEC Calls For Elections Postponement
The thoroughly discredited and moribund National Elections Commission (NEC)
has called for the postponement of parliamentary and local
elections scheduled for December 12th, 2019.
Speaking to the gathered media at a press conference, today, Thursday,
August 8th, the chair of commission, Abdilkadir Iman Warsame, stated
"that there will not be enough time to conduct a fair and free elections
this year".
This stunning declaration by the NEC, just as the Somaliland political
parties had reached an historic agreement with regard to the composition
of the NEC, comes as a blow to Somaliland's democratic process.
The main Somaliland opposition party, Waddani, which had steadfastly
refused to work with the current NEC, appears to have been vindicated by
this announcement. Even though, the NEC, recently held a mock
registration drive and had declared that all the equipment for the
elections was currently in place, it is quite staggering that the calls
for another delay should come from current commission.
Recently, the European Union envoy, Nicolas Berlanga Martinez, paid a
lengthy visit to Somaliland in order to facilitate the holding of the
parliamentary and local elections. However, this unacceptable
announcement by the NEC makes all his sterling efforts seem worthless.
The Somaliland House of Representative is currently debating a motion
to increase the number of members in the current national elections
commission from seven to nine, and with the President currently out of
the country on pilgrimage to the Hajj, the making of this announcement
on the last day of the working week is sinister, to say the least.
There is no doubt that there is something rotten in the current NEC,
and this needs to be investigated and those who may have committed
malfeasances be brought to justice.
The people of Somaliland will not accept another a delay, let alone, a postponement of the parliamentary and local elections.
Ali Mohamed Abokor
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