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ROME - Mogadishu is not Mickey Mouse and Somalis are not its friendly inhabitants, and yet yesterday elected President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Farmajo, historical nickname of Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.Born in Mogadishu in 1962, he graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA) with a thesis on Western history. In the same university he also obtained a master's degree and now teaches there. He is married to Mrs. Zeyneb Moalim and has four children, two boys and two girls. Human rights activist, has among other positions as head of the city of Buffalo minorities (USA). We interviewed him early this morning, joining him on the phone in the hotel where houses since last night in the Somali capital.
Congratulations President. To you and Somalia. As the elections are going? How you lived?
It's surreal!
As it has been achieved this result?
It was achieved by hard work of over a year and with a team capable and efficient.
But the vote was a plebiscite. You were elected on the second ballot with a majority of 184 votes to 97 (the third candidate took 46 votes instead), on at least three rounds provided by the Provisional Constitution in a Parliament elected clan-based, fragmented and without parties.
This victory is the Somali people who have long suffered and continues to suffer. We have done some serious work and our team have done an extensive campaign with civil society and its Sages.
What message would you send to the Somali people? How will you address the nodes of the economy, terrorism and division: in a word, the reconstruction of the country?
Our goal is to achieve first the peace and reconciliation of the Somali people. We put first the safety, justice, good governance, transparency, fighting corruption and terrorism. Finally also it serves a serious financial plan. I am convinced that Somalia can be reconstructed.
Are six months that Somalia has no government. When do you plan to submit the appointment of the Prime Minister, the last charge is still missing to reach the completeness of the Somali institutions?
As soon as possible. We will get to work immediately to give a legitimate and credible government in the country.
It is an Italian newspaper that you interview. What message does it send to the people and to the Italian institutions?
I greet with affection the Italian people. We want to quickly restore the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation together. I hope to soon have the opportunity to meet the Italian institutions.
The entire Somalia celebrated him. Even in areas occupied by the Al Shabab has been allowed to celebrate and Mogadishu, during the entire night in white, it has not fired a single shot of a firearm. With the election of Farmajo broke peace in Somalia. Among the first to congratulate him was the American administration, being Mohamed A. Mohamed also a citizen of the USA. Obama himself had wanted to meet him in 2016, at a dinner at the US Embassy in London, to encourage him having learned that gathered popular support, but that the Somali institutions did not provide for the universal suffrage elections.
http://www.repubblica.it/solidarieta/diritti-umani/2017/02/09/news/somalia-157940645
ROME - Mogadishu is not Mickey Mouse and Somalis are not its friendly inhabitants, and yet yesterday elected President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Farmajo, historical nickname of Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.Born in Mogadishu in 1962, he graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA) with a thesis on Western history. In the same university he also obtained a master's degree and now teaches there. He is married to Mrs. Zeyneb Moalim and has four children, two boys and two girls. Human rights activist, has among other positions as head of the city of Buffalo minorities (USA). We interviewed him early this morning, joining him on the phone in the hotel where houses since last night in the Somali capital.
Congratulations President. To you and Somalia. As the elections are going? How you lived?
It's surreal!
As it has been achieved this result?
It was achieved by hard work of over a year and with a team capable and efficient.
But the vote was a plebiscite. You were elected on the second ballot with a majority of 184 votes to 97 (the third candidate took 46 votes instead), on at least three rounds provided by the Provisional Constitution in a Parliament elected clan-based, fragmented and without parties.
This victory is the Somali people who have long suffered and continues to suffer. We have done some serious work and our team have done an extensive campaign with civil society and its Sages.
What message would you send to the Somali people? How will you address the nodes of the economy, terrorism and division: in a word, the reconstruction of the country?
Our goal is to achieve first the peace and reconciliation of the Somali people. We put first the safety, justice, good governance, transparency, fighting corruption and terrorism. Finally also it serves a serious financial plan. I am convinced that Somalia can be reconstructed.
Are six months that Somalia has no government. When do you plan to submit the appointment of the Prime Minister, the last charge is still missing to reach the completeness of the Somali institutions?
As soon as possible. We will get to work immediately to give a legitimate and credible government in the country.
It is an Italian newspaper that you interview. What message does it send to the people and to the Italian institutions?
I greet with affection the Italian people. We want to quickly restore the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation together. I hope to soon have the opportunity to meet the Italian institutions.
The entire Somalia celebrated him. Even in areas occupied by the Al Shabab has been allowed to celebrate and Mogadishu, during the entire night in white, it has not fired a single shot of a firearm. With the election of Farmajo broke peace in Somalia. Among the first to congratulate him was the American administration, being Mohamed A. Mohamed also a citizen of the USA. Obama himself had wanted to meet him in 2016, at a dinner at the US Embassy in London, to encourage him having learned that gathered popular support, but that the Somali institutions did not provide for the universal suffrage elections.
http://www.repubblica.it/solidarieta/diritti-umani/2017/02/09/news/somalia-157940645
