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Somali transitional government to face confidence vote
+ - 21:40, October 22, 2007




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The transitional national parliament of Somalia on Monday voted overwhelmingly for having a motion of confidence vote on the government of Prime Minster Ali Mohamed Gedi after three days of deliberation amid growing difference between Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and the prime minister.

Ibrahim Isak Yarow, a member of the parliament, said the parliament have voted in favor of a vote of confidence motion in the government with a wide majority.

"About 115 voted for a motion of confidence in the current government as opposed by merely 23 who wanted the continuation of previous agenda of the parliament," Yarow told Xinhua by phone.

"The vote today is indicative of how deputies will be voting in the parliament session on Wednesday because the prime minister will require 139 votes for the survival of his government and I doubt he can ever marshal that number, considering the vote today in the house," Yarow said.

Five lawmakers abstained while 80 others were absent from the session of the parliament, now based in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, 245 km northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

The Somali parliament has been divided over whether, considering the current differences between Somali president and the prime minister, to carry out a vote of confidence on Gedi's government as advocated by supporters of the President or continue the previous agenda of the parliament session.

Speaker Aden Madobe told MPs that the parliament will reconvene for the crucial vote of confidence on the government of Gedi on Wednesday.

The Somali president and his supporters accuse the prime minister of failing to establish the federal system and constitution within the required two year mandate but the prime minister said he has more time to do the job.

Source: Xinhua