US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that Somalia should organize parliamentary and presidential elections immediately, calling on the country's leaders to put aside what he described as narrow political goals and fulfill their responsibilities towards the people.
Blinken expressed - in a statement - Washington's deep concern about what he called the electoral impasse in Somalia, "which creates a state of political uncertainty and threatens security, stability and development in the country."
And the US Secretary of State believed that what he called the current impasse undermined the progress made so far and delayed the urgently needed reforms for Somalia.
Somalia has passed a deadline for elections by February 8, when President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo was supposed to leave power, which led to a constitutional crisis, and a coalition of opposition candidates is currently preparing the president is illegal and is demanding his resignation.
After the collapse of the previous military regime in 1991, Somalia entered into a civil war that led the country to a state of division, but after many attempts to save it from disintegration, the Somali political parties in 2000 reached a formula for power-sharing on the basis of a tribal standard, in transitional periods that extended until 2012. .
It is the year in which Somalia formally exited from the transitional period to permanent governments, and since that day, two electoral processes have been organized in Somalia, in the first of which Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud was elected president in 2012, while in the second President Muhammad Abdullah Farmajo was elected in 2017, and the country Now on the verge of a new electoral process.