Somaliland opposition parties expect to announce major decisions over the election dispute

Somaliland opposition parties are expected to announce a momentous decision on Sunday following the end of the official term in office of president Muse Bihi, although he got extension by two years from the house of elders.

In previous statements, the Opposition parties stated they will not consider Bihi as the legitimate president after 13 November, making him the first incumbent President in Somaliland’s history to lose the confidence of opposition parties and their supporters if the opposition takes the decision.

Meanwhile, the opposition parties delayed their long awaited press conference after a voluntary mediation committee led by Ali Waran Cadde, a senior advisor to the President. Mohamed Nuur Araale Duur, the former interior minister and the Mayor of Hargeisa made intervention early in the morning.

Additional reports say, the opposition parties have given a chance to the voluntary mediation committee until this evening and if there is no result, they will go ahead to declare their major decision this evening.

President Bihi insisted that no other ballot can precede the political parties’ election while the opposition declined and determined the Presidential election to come before the other election.