Presentation made by former president Abdirahman Mohamad Farole to int’l community.

Your Excellency, the SRSG of the U.N. to Somalia, Excellencies, Ambassadors of the International Community, Distinguished Members of the Delegation, we thank you for your trip to Puntland and for this opportunity to meet and discuss the political dispensation of the future Somalia.

1.0 Excellences as you are aware, the clan based formula or “4.5” is considered in Puntland to be something of the past. During my tenure in office (Jan. 2009 – January 2014), it was agreed in Feb. 2012 that 4.5 scheme would be used only for 2012 election. That year, our administration sold to the people of Puntland to accept 4.5 scheme only for the selection of Lower House of Federal Parliament and that the Upper House would be based on constituencies.  In Garowe Principles II, it was also agreed as a compromise that the both Houses of Federal Parliament will be based on constituencies for 2016 elections. This was a comprise agreement reached by then-Roadmap Signatories – including myself, current Puntland President Abdiweli Ali Gaas (who was TFG Prime Minister in 2012), and Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, current president of ISWA (Interim South-West) – who was Speaker of the House in 2012.

The agreement’s principles were reflected in the Federal Constitution (PFC); see the Articles 204 (tempered version is Article 138), 64, 72, 73, 48 paragraph 2, 49 and 96.

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