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long delay. so molly is to hold the boat to choose its next president. the aim is to put an end to instability in this crucial region of africa. but is that possible for a nation facing several challenges? this is insight story. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm hashem. i'll bala, after more than a year of delays, violence and uncertainty. samaria is ready to vote for its next president. the original plan was to hold a one person one vote election for the 1st time in 50 years. but security concerns
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as well as legal and financial realities, make that difficult. instead somebody is, parliament will select the president would explain how that works in a moment. but 1st, this report from malcolm lamp in mogadishu shakes sharif amid, was president of somalia once before. and he wants to be president again. his government was credited with developing somalis, constitution, and building the national army. after the central government collapsed in 1991. it was criticized for corruption. i want to build a government, it gives me rights to all the somali people and provide security and justice to this morning for trying to include all political functions and for specific policies, shake serif is widely seen as one of the strongest contenders is one of 39
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candidates who have registered their post in line. this 3 in mogadishu, one of them will go on to lead a government that doesn't control much of somalia beyond here, the capital sways of the country side, a control by the on group out, bob. some of these don't even get to vote in this election. it's members of parliament who will elect the president. and the members of parliament were selected by clan representatives. everyone familiar with the process? they've been mod 5 vote buying and corruption. another former president says, shake mood running new say, why do you seen as a possibly winner? when he was in office, you an investigator said hi, this individual embezzled. last sum of money from the central bank. let's check the gun. the got once a peace activist, he's known as a negotiator and says home men, the rest between somalia is federal, state incoming president mohammed up to life is running again.
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he's lost support in parliament. his opponent say he's divisive, made some money as armed, conflicts worse, brought economic decline. he's promising change retiree play minister on the farm as i fell out, your opponent contender. the final outcome of the vote depends on who ends up supporting who it's very difficult to predict. you know, potential alliances of this, the stage. i think a lot of back room deals and under the table deals are happening as we speak. and they'll continue to happen until the 11th hour. just before dawn on sunday morning shall continue to make deals. members of parliament will vote on sunday in a series of up to 3 rounds in the safety of mortgage issues green zone. far removed from most somalis, the regions, worst drought in decades is just one of the many challenges faced by millions of
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people. and by somali is next leader malcolm web, al jazeera, mogadishu, somalia. let's take a look at how so molly as voting process works, a group of a 135 glen elders choose more than 14000 delegates, representing different parts of the country than those delegates elect representatives of the 2 houses of parliament. one is the house of the people with 275 members, and there is the senate chamber which has 54 seats that have already been elected. both houses been elect the president through a secret ballot who appoints the prime minister, who in turn we form the cabinets. ah, let's bring in our gas in mogadishu, ali watson, a lecture of the east africa university and for the minister of education in the
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point land state of somalia. in doha, or done ali somalia analyst who is a senior advisor to the mayor of mogadishu. also in mogadishu, mohammad mubarak, executive director of mccarty and also executive director of the somali up is forum . welcome to the program ali. how crucial is this election which is about which is over a year behind shadow all. oh, thank you very much on thank you. having me for having me actually, i think it's a good to half an election after what year there was a time whereby we were expecting it may take longer, 2 years, 3 years. even it may not even take place. so bringing the election here. i'm busing . all the hard on this, i think it's a good start. i think are we are now is sure that that would be a president to be elected to model. sure that you will have a president,
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but however, people are still concerned her done. the i did worse to implement a universal suffrage where people will decide the outcome of the election. what happens in this complex political landscape is that she have a bunch of elders who decide everything in somalia. isn't this something that is likely to just continue eroding public trust in the political system in the country? thank you for having me haitian. absolutely. i think someone is, are tired of having elders decide their fates. it is a process that has been ongoing sale time in memorial. the last time we've had elections, public elections, one person, one vote was 3 point deck for a decade ago. we were hoping that this time around somebody would get an opportunity for one person, one vote, it didn't happen. it's a failure of the current regime. the we do hope that in the next government that is
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a priority. number one, having a process that is led by i selected you create an opportunity for the massive corruption that we have seen some money as a history in recent years and this year actually probably out marks any other election question that we have seen. so we are hopeful that in the next government ivanhoe, somebody demand we do get one person, one vote mohammed, one of the justifications for abandoning the one person one vote and stick him with the indirect vote is that there are legal, financial, and stability issues that the country has to tackle before moving forward to that new approach. but as you know, klan divisions are endemic in somalia as in different parts of the region. how do you see this resolved in the future? i think that there is no justification other than it's easier to read an election
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where these are small, settled, people walk into elect a control abided by the officials. what being elected so, and i think for us to move beyond this, the as to b and b international demand because someone in government and the sensitive our presence of the people. and we don't, we don't have a c and get it. we don't pay most of the government funds, we the, it would be a small fraction of the government expenses for that reason. the government does not feel that it needs to. and to i said last because and it doesn't feel it's to present us. it represents, those will be it. and those who don't care about motivation, although they say they give us need service. and as we've seen for 5 and a half years now they are not pushed for the nation. they have are, here we are,
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i think, or others. if this continues next cycle it, i'll catch it highly. what are some the election was delayed for almost a year, 15 months because of a huge divide between the president. well, how about the life of marshal and the prime minister mohammed jose and who come from 2 different plans? do you think that this divide will continue to mount the political process, the elections, and the aftermath of the elections? look for my understanding, you know, is one of the factors dot beside is already said for somebody, ballistics, but it's not the only factor on a slot as we come close to it. but a special election. there is a lot of other things that make a decisive in this process. now, you are not the present. i'm not sure what's expected to held on election on time. on the universal suffrage. i'm totally done. but how?
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but as we said, the brighten minister who came the last time was the savior. actually that what that extension in like an extension of 2 years for the ballot method. going by lament. but i'll have to relax the primary sort of case on the, you know, the whole process. the election was given to him. i think you to get very, but it would initiative completed the process. i don't expect to get, you know, discontinue, because the likelihood of electing the carbon tinkle, but the percentage is unlikely on that if you will come at it. so i think that that will be your fresh faith. ok. hold done. 39 contender, the incumbent president, former president has been shift mohammed, former mayor of montgomery issue a former prime minister, who stands the chance to become the president. it is a very crowded election cycle, and at this point,
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really too close to call. i really have any favorite are the 2 former president hasn't listened within tradition, but you also have the income for my jewels, who most likely, many of the political observers think he will not return just given the dismal performance over the past 5 years, but not also not just performing poorly on key metrics, but you know, the overall political environment that he has created has really been, i'm or thing for somebody politics. is that like, as you mentioned, the former prime minister happened also attend contender. but really the country is looking for someone who can bring about unity, bring together the factored system that we have the political system that we've got . but also someone who can hit the ground running because somalia had several
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challenges that it must on day one. this government needs to tackle, as you know, there is severe drought across the country of somalia renovation. so really competent, someone who knows the ropes. i don't think we can afford to have a new company that you know that that will be learning on the job. but absolutely, the 2 presidents are really the high, the for runners at this point. obviously mohammed the only female candidate for the in a pretty much predominantly passed react society. do see it was a symbolic presence here. yes sir, not only symbolic, i think it shows that she has and ambitions. this is the 2nd time she's running and she has them. but unfortunately, inch it's been are likely to get anything. and there are, i think other problem was seeing it's are we have a problem with the recycling,
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old testament failed and this 2 phone numbers are part of the reason why we're here . they are the ones who made sure that there's not russians or the other ones. what about the other ones and over over, so somalia goes to come in. and so i think we need someone, you, someone who has experience and governing as a mom who has integrity. and unfortunately the people who are currently in default business and the kind of presidents, dont description. so it's are renovated by the stress on her. i'm sorry, but there's no, and i don't see, i don't see anyone in an interstate who can be anything. and so i, li, this is what happens often times in somalia, the elders when they convene and when the elect, the delegates who select the prime minister,
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the president who appoints the prime minister who chooses his cabinet, is always against the backdrop of the key lands of somalia don't afford to have any misrepresentation here that good drug drag the country into a civil war, which means that ultimately we're just going to see a replica of the similar former governments who have always been responsible for the embezzlement of public funds, corruption, violence, and instability. i don't see any optimism here about how to move forward. or actually i disagree with mom or you know, life or the end of the term, not a very, very difficult cycle before election is happening in the country without having a brian. but it's a finish at the job to be at least get it after 115 months late. and we have a contender. it's one of the expect to get someone to come from the even these are the guys who are competing on will have to select one of them for my assessment to
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us. you know, already someone said there is a chance, the 100 on it is very clear on this time a disjuncture. we need some one or how the experience was going to be have if someone wants to know these to be turned on the job when it is someone who know the robot will know the government will have the experience, will can take it from there. and that's why the former president tucker shouldn't move on shift. surely if i'm the president of clinton and then i the front about it because they have some sort of government, some sort of experience. i think one of the key element is that not only that you not to be doesn't, not only to be, you know, know that you're, but we need someone who can't bring but is to get that who can make a compromise, can hear the process. and that is coming from these guys and i've been optimistic. okay. done the expectations of the so many people us. so one thing and then the
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expectations of the international committees, something different. they have been looking forward to see a political establishment though. that is widely going to become somehow a bull work against the rise of shut up. now what shut up took advantage of the political impacts further expanding the influence across the country? do you see them as the biggest challenge facing whoever comes to paula on sunday afternoon and i just want to echo what i said. we are actually very optimistic and hopeful that once this election wraps up the new president, low, i sure in a different and depending on who ends up being the winner, obviously the, but ultimately i think, you know, the last 2 years a, somebody have shown a whole lot of political maturity given the background of 30 plus years of conflict in civil war. and the fact that we have rejected an attempt to subvert the ability
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to, to actually hold the elections marks but clear. i hope i have a clear hope for the somali people in terms of the international community and it's in money and shop and all of that, i think part of the problem in the past 5 years has been the community has played a bit of sort of not really understanding the truck, the money of faces when it comes to the governing structure and what the current which has been doing. and we do know that i'll shut up now, has much larger control over the country than when the president, for my job took our power in 2017. obviously it is the biggest issue that we've got . but as much as that is the biggest issue that we've got security, it's political reconciliation. and really having political of women is very, very much important. as you know, president for my job has to be an assault on the federal system that we bought in
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somalia. and that has created a lot of my city in chaos, and we hope the folks like how to share with families yesterday president any able to come in, hopefully bring some stability in you made the country as we look forward to fighting through the government. how much is that possible moving forward with tackling about when the, the causes of this content remain on somalia, respective, what happens on sunday? i think the challenges are i miss and these are and i think the international community is on the go to some security and because of that, they don't invest as much on other issues. or is there a governance on democratization on and making sure government, which is all the way to a local level. so that was all the energy on security. and that creates
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a government sponsored. and obviously monster has no legitimacy portage. it's michelle best and saw what when the government lacks legitimacy, does not have the legitimacy to fight or claims to be able to function a bit. districts of the villages of the cancer government can do that. and i think we need to invest more and more disease and then we can focus on security on we're going to them complimentary together. but the national and international community support is mostly ok to be a problem for anyone who are ali or the same time you have somebody is jose election will be just step one. what should come 1st step to which is a new political agreement between all the components of the somebody society that would pay the ground for a new constitution. and you political establishment that could be conducive to shaping the face of a new somalia. that would lead the nation in the future to the general suffrage
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election that people hope will bring about new fiber and democracy to the country. her, as you said on, we all agree here the, the, the what, what lies in front of the new government is ready, but it huge. but i think you, one of the key element is the trusted. you're not trust the deficit and that's what was created for the last several years. i think somalia, anyone who camecia, they will give time, they will give him at least an honeymoon for one year to do what he was the most or she was somebody to do. i am expecting that that will be someone who take the priorities, knowing how to take the country forward and bring the saw mileage to go. that does preserve the federal system, which was the cornerstone of our system. i'm getting all about this together. i saw marliss. i'm pretty sure that we will win if we will work to ok and i think it negates the government. we need a unit,
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fire compromise or bringing people together and healing of the excursion off the bus o. done. but don't you see that the next president won't have the luxury of time because you're facing the worst drought in the and in almost a decade, millions going hungry. the international community and the donors in particular are looking for signs of stability. democracy to commit more pledges and more assistance for the country. it seems that is going to be an extremely delicate task for the, for the president. i mean, absolutely. there is no time to waste. as i said, you know, the new government, the president needs to hit the ground running and i think that's why some contenders are much more apt to be able to meet those challenges. and the one i do believe president has a share sense to, to be a serious you know, person who's able to deliver that has been the experience and the capacity to be
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able to perform. i think denny as well. and it should it. so i think from those perspectives, absolutely, we don't have time. but at the end of the day, as i said to, we have had 5 years or really traumatic political experience across the board. anything someone is, are much more factor today than they were 2017 priority number one is to really ensure that unity is really worked on immediately political reconciliation, healing is, is, is prior to number one. otherwise we will not have the security in political and stability that we're looking for. so whoever becomes president and in somalia has a tall order to meet on the one. obviously as, as my colleagues mentioned, international community expects. you know, the person who comes in is able to deliver a, b, and c. i think someone is need to figure out what needs to be delivered a, b,
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and c, and rally behind the new president mohammed the, the, since they don't follow dictator. c asbury 991. the hope was basically to change the country to bring about reconciliation. and stability of our dream has been elusive. will help us off to sunday. are you optimistic in the sense that although that's very slow, we have had a continuous movement in the general general direction. it's not as effective as i wanted to, not as i wanted, and it's not as fast as they don't want it. but it's been slow and optimistic in that sense. but i know the fact that the new president is going to have you do the immediate problems with different states electrons you'd probably be involved in it
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. so in that sense, and the only way i see forward for group is for the donors who found the government to be my democrats decision to demand a move to was signing the surgeons. you know, you know, we the government last so yeah, yeah, thank you. thank you, i really appreciate your contribution and i'm looking forward to having the same conversation with you when we know who's going to become the next president of somebody. i was somehow that i didn't have that about it. thank you and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion. go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha insights for you can also join the conversation on twitter. our hand. it is a j inside story from the hash and i bottle, and the entire team here in doha bye for now.
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