{"id":447470,"date":"2025-08-25T16:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=447470"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:31:41","slug":"joint-communique-on-talks-between-the-federal-government-and-part-of-the-national-salvation-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/joint-communique-on-talks-between-the-federal-government-and-part-of-the-national-salvation-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Communiqu\u00e9 on Talks Between the Federal Government and Part of the National Salvation Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2014 In recognition of the importance of national unity, political stability, and inclusive good governance \u2014 and with priority given to advancing Somalia\u2019s state-building process \u2014 the Federal Government of Somalia and a section of the National Salvation Forum (including former Speaker of the Parliament, H.E Mohamed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman, former Speaker and ex-South West State President Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, former Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, and former Minister Dahir Mohamud Geelle, the Forum\u2019s Spokesperson) jointly issued the following points of agreement:<\/p>\n

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  1. Commitment to safeguarding the sovereignty and unity of the Federal Republic of Somalia.<\/li>\n
  2. Agreement to jointly support national security efforts and the ongoing liberation campaign against Al-Shabaab terrorists.<\/li>\n
  3. Confirmation that the Federal Parliament shall elect the President of Somalia, while Federal Member State assemblies will elect their respective Presidents and Vice Presidents.<\/li>\n
  4. Affirmation that the President of Somalia holds the authority to appoint the Prime Minister, subject to approval by the House of the People, which also retains the right to withdraw confidence.<\/li>\n
  5. Agreement that any political organization securing at least 10% of Federal Parliament seats shall be recognized as a national political party.<\/li>\n
  6. The country\u2019s electoral process shall be guided by the 2024 Electoral Law, while also incorporating provisions outlined in this communiqu\u00e9.<\/li>\n
  7. Commitment to promptly conduct local council, Federal Member State, and Federal Government elections.<\/li>\n
  8. Agreement to expedite the completion of the remaining chapters of the Federal Constitution to ensure legality and strengthen the state-building process.<\/li>\n
  9. Consensus that both government and opposition will participate jointly in advancing the transition to universal suffrage (\u201cone person, one vote\u201d) elections for local councils, state assemblies, and both Houses of the Federal Parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Appeal<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

    Building on this mutual understanding and the resolution of previous differences, the parties jointly call on all political stakeholders to unite and actively participate in completing Somalia\u2019s democratization process.<\/p>\n

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    Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2014 In recognition of the importance of national unity, political stability, and inclusive good governance \u2014 and with priority given to advancing Somalia\u2019s state-building process \u2014 the Federal Government of Somalia and a section of the National Salvation Forum (including former Speaker of the Parliament, H.E Mohamed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman, former Speaker and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":447471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-447470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447483,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447470\/revisions\/447483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}