{{Somalia Cabinet led by Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali held a meeting in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday and agreed to allow a smooth transition of power to a new government.}}<\/p>\n
During the meeting, they also discussed completion of transition process and current political issues including forthcoming presidential and speaker\u2019s election, saying the polls would signify democracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are also looking forward to an equally democratic progression running up to the election of a new president of Somalia,\u201d they said in a press statement.<\/p>\n
Prof Ali commended the cabinet members for ensuring a smooth end to the transition period and hailed their commitment to the process. <\/p>\n
He stressed that his cabinet will smoothly hand over power to the new president.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy government is ready to hand over power to a new Federal Government when formed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to a roadmap agreed on by the main political groupings in Somalia, the term of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) ended on August 20 with the establishment of a federal parliament, which replaced the transitional federal parliament that served for eight years.<\/p>\n
The members of the new parliament are expected to elect a president; the contestants include the incumbent TFG President, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden.<\/p>\n
The outcome of the envisaged election will culminate in a process that transforms TFG into a permanent government after more than two decades of chaos and anarchy in the Horn of Africa country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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