Farmajo Meets With Parliament Speaker Amid Political Tension

The President of Somalia’s Federal Government, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has met with the speaker of the Lower House chamber of Parliament, Mohamed Osman Jawari in Mogadishu.

The meeting between the two leaders focused on ways to seek a lasting solution to the current political tension and the standoff over the no-confidence motion against Jawari.

On Sunday, speaker Jawari has held a press conference in Mogadishu and called on opposition lawmakers for a vote on the no-confidence motion against him within 10 days.

“The motion is now accepted and it should be tabled before the parliament within ten as per the House Standing Orders, or else it will expire and be nullified,” he noted.

The sentiment of the speaker contradicts the outcome of the Parliamentary Standing Committee which declared on Wednesday that motion against Jawari was dropped after it failed secure threshold quorum.