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a one person one vote election for the 1st time in 50 years. but security concerns, 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 went 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 that gives me rights to all the somali people and provide security and justice to some people you more known for trying to include all political

factions and for specific policies. shake serif is widely seen as one of the strongest contenders is one of 39 candidates who have registered their posters 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, somalis don't even get to vote in this election. it's members of parliament who will elect the president, and the members of parliament was selected by con representatives. everyone familiar with the process? say it's been mod 5 vote buying and corruption. another former president and shaking her mood in the running lutheran, widely, seen as a possible winner. when he was in office, you an investigator said, hi, this individuals embezzled fast sums of money from the central bank. let's check on the gun. the got once a peace activist, he's known as a negotiator and says home men, the risk between some money is federal,

state incumbent president mohammed, up to life is running again. he's lost support in parliament. his opponent say he's divisive, made some money is on conflicts worth, improve, economic decline. he's promising change recovery point 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 at this stage. i think a lot of backroom 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 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 people. and by somali is next leader malcolm web, al jazeera, mogadishu, somalia. let's take a look at how somali 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 guess in mogadishu, ali watson, a lecture or the east africa university and for the minister of education in the point land state of somalia. in doha were done. i, li, somalia analyst who is a senior advisor to the mayor of mogadishu. also in mogadishu, mohammed marque, executive director of mccarty, and also executive director of the somali at these forum. welcome to the program, the ali. how crucial is this election which is about she's 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 have an election after we're done was a time where to buy. 1 we were expecting a dog. 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 tomorrow. sure that you will have a president. 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 so. somebody's are tired of having elders decide their fates in 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 3.4 decades 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. but we do hope that in the next government, that is 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 in some money as a history in recent years. and this year actually probably marks any other election crushing that we have seen. so we are hopeful that in the next government, not even hopeful somebody is 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 flee a lesson where these are small, settled, people walk into elect a control abided by the officials were being elected. so, and i think for us to move beyond this, there are 2 b and b international demand because someone in government representative out of percent of the people. and we don't, we don't have a c and we'll get that. we don't pay most of the governments. we demand it would be a small fraction of the government expenses for that reason. the government does not feel that it needs to and to assets last because and it doesn't finish to present us. it represents those will be it. and those who don't care about motivation, although they say they give us

a need service. and as we've seen for 5 and a half years, they are not pushed for the nation. they have are here we are, i think or others. if this continues next cycle it occurs, it highly was on the election was delayed for almost a year for 15 months because of a huge divide between the president were hammered on the life of the module 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 that beside is already said for somebody bullets. but it's not the only factor on a slot as we come close to it, but a special election there. it's a lot of other things that make

a decisive in this process. now, you are not the present for much. what's expected to held on election on time, on the universal suffrage. i'm totally dudley about how, but i would say the brighten minister who made the last time was the t. v actually got what that extension 11 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 and complete the process. i don't expect the dog you're not discontinue, because the likelihood of electing the carbon tinkle, but the percentage is unlikely on that if you will come in. 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 form a prime minister,

who stands the chance to become the president. it is a very crowded election cycle and at this point, really too close to call them really heavily favorite are the 2 former presidents, passenger and shot. but you also have the income for my job, who most likely many of the political observers think he will not return. and just given that this low performance over the past 5 years, but not also, i just performing poorly on key metrics. but, you know, the overall political environment that he has created has really been an earth thing for somebody politics. there is that, like, as you mentioned, the former prime minister has been under who's also attend contender. but really, the country is looking for someone who can bring about a unity,

bring together the factors, a system that we have, the political system that we've got, but also someone who can hit the ground running because the money has several huge challenges that it must on day one, this government needs to tackle, as you know, there is a severe drought across the country. minutes of some mine is our base ration. so really competence for someone who knows the ropes. i don't think we can afford to have a new company that you know, that will be learning on the job. but absolutely, the 2 former president are really the higher the foreigners at this point. and obviously mohammed the only female candidate for the, you know, pretty much predominantly patriarchal society. do sit one of a symbolic presence here. yes, sir, not only symbolic, i think it shows that she house and be sure to visit the 2nd ash is running. and

she has them, but unfortunately inch it's been alley far to get anything. and there are, i think are all them we're seeing it's are we have a problem with the recycling old? just didn't feel people. and this 2 for our part of the reason why we're here, the other ones will make sure that there's not russians or the other ones. what about corruption? they are the ones and over over. so somalia goes to from in and so i think and we need someone you, someone who has experience and governing as a home who has integrity. and unfortunately the people who are currently n for business and the kind of presidents, dont description so it's are renovated by the stress or i'm sorry, but there is no. and i don't see i don't see anyone and, and in the center who can be anything. oh, so highly, this is what happens often times in somalia,

the elders when they convene and when the elect, the delegates who select the prime minister, 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 drug, 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, you know, light or the end of the tunnel. so malia has a very, very difficult, say called before election is ha, ha, ha, binding in the country. we are having a brian, but us a dot finch at the top to be at least

a good it after 115 months late. and we, half a contender is one of the expect to get someone to come from the, even these are the guys who are competing on, we have to select to one of them for my assessment to us, you know, order to someone say there is a chance the foreign honors are very, very clear on at this time a disjuncture. we need someone who have the experience, what kind of behalf is someone, what's an obese to be turned in on the job when it is someone who knows the robi sworn or the government, while the expediency who can take it from there. and that's why the former president sponsorship ma, move on shift sheriff and the present off until and then, and i the form to be honest 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 destined to not only to be, you know, know that you, but we need someone who can't being bought this together, who can make

a compromise, who can heal the process on that is coming from these guys and i, i've been optimistic. okay, a done, the expectations of the somebody people are so, so one thing and then the 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 as ship. now a shaft took advantage of the political impasse further expanding the influence across the country. do you see them as the biggest challenge facing whoever comes to paula on sunday. absolutely. annex went to echo, ah, let, i said, ah, we are actually they optimistic and hopeful that when this election wraps up and then the new president will assure, in addition, and depending on who ends up being at that we know, obviously the, but ultimately i think you know the last 2 years so man is 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 divert the ability to, to actually hold the elections marks a clear, a hope, a clear hope for many people in terms of the international community. and it's in the go tomorrow and all of that. and i think part of the problem in the past 5 years has been a community has played a bit of sort of and not really understanding the tract, somalia faces when it comes to the governing structure and what the current regime has been doing. and we do know that i'll show up now has much larger control over the country. then when i'm president for my just took our power in 2017 and obviously it is the biggest issue that we've got. but as much as that is the biggest issue that we've got security, political reconciliation and really having political agreement is, is very,

very much important. as you know, president for my job has really launched an assault on the federal system that we bought in somalia. and that has created a lot of and my city in chaos. and we hope the folks like has a shift with president any are able to come and hopefully bring some stability in you made the country as we look forward to fighting shot through this building. government mohammed is, is that possible moving forward with talking about one the, the causes of discontent, 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 only going to some security. and because of that, they don't invest as much on other issues and governance on democratization on and

making sure government which is all the way to the local level. and so that was all the energy on security and that creates a government sponsored. publicly monster has no legitimacy borders, it's michelle best and saw what when the government lacks legitimacy, does not have the legitimacy to fight our claims to be able to function a bit. districts of the villages of the cancer government kind of do that. and i think we need to invest more on governance disease and then we can focus on security on going to them complimentary together. but the national and international community support is mostly ok to center. that would be a problem for anyone. who are i? li, are the same time you have somebody is her say, 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's society that

would pay the ground for a new constitution and your 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 election that people hope will bring about a new fiber and democracy to the country. her, as you said, and we all agree here the, the, the what, what lies in front of the new government is very, very huge. but i think you, one of the key element is the trusted. you're not trust the deficit. and as what was created for the last several years, i think samaya, 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 supposed 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 together, does preserve the federal system, which was the cornerstone of our system. i'm bringing all about this together. i

saw marliss. i'm pretty sure that we will win if we will work to ok, and i think that negates the government when the unit fire compromiser bring the bill 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 enter in almost a decade, millie as 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 continues are much more apt to be able to meet those challenges. and the one i do believe

president has a share, stands to, to be a serious you know, person who's able to deliver that has been the experience and the capacity to be able to perform. i think denny as well. and it should if so, i think from those perspective 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, 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 so might need to figure out what needs to be delivered a, b, and c. ok. and rally behind the new president mohammed the the since they don't follow dictator sierra barry, 92921 the, the hope was basically to change the country to bring about reconciliation and stability. and that room has been elusive will help us off to sunday. are you optimistic in the sense that although it's very slow, we have had a continuous movement in general general direction. it's not as effective as i wanted. it's not as i wanted. and it's not as fast as they don't want it, but it's been slow and 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. so in that sense, and the only way i see forward for christy group is that the donors who found the government to be mind, democrats, this is to demand and move to us to co signing insurgence. you know, you know, we, the government last so not yet. 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 on. hold on . i didn't have much 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, and also joining the conversation on twitter, our hand. it is

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