Somali President officially opens HLPF In Mogadishu

The President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud has on Sunday officially opened High-Level Partnership Forum Somalia’s capital city Mogadishu.

Leaders of Galmudug, South-west, Jubbaland and Puntland, along the president and prime minister of the federal government, have attended the forum.

According to reliable sources, the leaders will discuss the state of Mogadishu and other points relating to the upcoming election.

In April this year, the leaders agreed ‘guiding principles’ of the election and the process that facilitate the transfer of power when the government’s mandate expires in 2016.

The president used an executive order and called for an election in Somalia, bypassing the parliament which delayed the debate over the matter.

In a presidential decree issued on 22nd this month, the president said it was imperative the electoral model be adopted into law to tame the escalation of rifts and protect the interests of the country.

According to Somalia’s Provisional Federal Constitution, adopted in 2012, the mandates of the Somali Federal Parliament and of the government would come to an end in August and September 2016, respectively.