Somaliland house of elders adjourns session and sends back the amended election law to the house of representatives

Somaliland house of elders has adjourned its session to Saturday for unspecified reasons as the public was expecting them to discuss the ongoing poll contention between the government, political associations, and opposition parties.

The house also sent back the recently approved election law amendment to the house of representatives. A move that could trigger further constitutional and political crises.

Initial reports say the speaker of the house of representatives Abdikrizak Khalif deliberately rejected receiving the amendment law which his house was passed recently from the house of elders that promoted the amendmended law documents in a cardboard box to be placed between the two houses’ buildings.

This follows after 46 House of Representatives Mps sent a complaint letter to the house of elders, claiming the procedure of the approval was “illegal” and against the house inlaws. A complaint was denied by rest of the house of representatives including the chairmanship.

The new amendment law favors the combination of presidential and political association elections. The two opposition parties immediately endorsed the approval while the top officials of the ruling party did not clarify their stand regarding the amended law.