Saturday April 2, 2022
Mogadishu (HOL) - The Federal Electoral Implementation Team (FEIT) began presenting membership certificates to the first group of elected Lower House members on Saturday. FEIT chairman, Muse Gelle Yusuf, presented certificates to legislators.
The Federal Electoral Implementation Team released a list of elected Lower House MPs and Upper House Senators on Thursday, with the results of four Lower House seats from the South West and Hirshabelle regional states being excluded.
Hirshabelle and South West regional states - where the suspended seats emanate - have rejected the FEIT's decision.
The South West State of Somalia considered the chairman's move to target constituencies illegal and violated electoral agreements and procedures.
"As the commission has lost its mandate and independence, the SEIT leadership, in collaboration with the members of the Federal Implementation Committee operating in the Southwest, will automatically transfer the files of the Members of Parliament to the Secretaries of both Houses of the parliament," South West said in a statement.
The HOP086 seat, which was won by president Farmaajo's national security adviser Fahad Yasin, is one of the seats that the chairman omitted from the official list. This seat was elected from Beledweyne's Hirshabelle.
Hirshabelle regional state said in a statement that the HOP086 seat went through all of the election procedures and that they had received no complaints from the clan that possessed the seat or the candidates that ran for it.
Hirshabelle accused the commission's chairman of violating the election's agreements and procedures, saying that its State Electoral Implementation Team (SEIT) would submit its official list to the secretaries of both Houses of the Federal Parliament.