The Truth Prevails Again in Somaliland.

The enemies try to fail the democracy progress and peace in Somaliland. They write character-killing articles on the websites to downgrade Somaliland development, democracy, tolerance and peace. However the homemade democracy and crisis management techniques disapprove the enemies and prove to the world that fighting has no place in Somaliland.

These enemies including some Somalis who believe that independent Somaliland will be end of their meaningless universalism (they believe that leadership of Somalia belongs to them). Somaliland political parties, civil societies and public are committed to establish better future for their children.

Somaliland will always remain ´Peace Paradise of the World´ despite all odds and coups by the enemies of Somaliland. Negotiation and Roundtable talks are the base principles of Somaliland Homemade Crisis Management Technique. Somaliland implemented Biometric Voter Registraton System to ensure free and fair election. The Server (Voter Registration System) ensures 0ne-Man-One-Vote Concept. Somaliland enrolled all its citizens in the system.

Here, I republish story about recent deal over disputed election timeframe between the Ruling Party UDUB and Opposition Parties – UCID and Kulmiye. Somaliland Election Commission rescheduled the election on 27th Sep 2009.

Hargiesa, 27 May 2009 (Somaliland Press) - The Somaliland political parties and the Electoral commission signed agreement that will end the long political crisis in Somaliland and is expected to lead an environment where the elections will take place on the designated time. The agreement is the result of series of talks among the parties and the electoral committee from the 16th to 26th of May 2009.

The agreement was signed by the three political parties and the electoral commission in an event attended by government officials, members of the opposition parties, electoral commission and others.

The agreement contained eight points all related to the coming elections in September 2009.

The first point of the agreement is the election date which the all parties agreed to take place on the 27th of September 2009.

The second point is about the server issue. The parties agreed that they will accept the list of the voters that is to be published by the electoral commission if certain conditions are met. Those conditions are about the date where the final list should be finalized before the 27th of July. The technical committee should carry out their job in a very responsible and reasonable way. The parameters of the selection of the voters should be consulted with all the parties and signed by the technical committee as the electoral law explains.

The third point is about the Electoral Commission to prepare the presidential elections timeline in ten days so that the process will be followed by all the parties.

The fourth one is about the elections campaign. In respect to the month of Ramadan, the campaign should start 60 days before the election date and end 48 hours before the election starts.

The fifth point is preparing the code of conduct. It should be prepared within four weeks starting from the day when this agreement is signed. All the parties and the electoral committee should prepare the code of conduct of the elections.

The sixth point is about gaps within the electoral bylaws. Those gaps should be clarified through the legislation buddies.

The seventh point is about the public media. The opposition parties should be given enough and fair time for their campaign activities during the elections. Those public media are the Radio Hargeisa, the national TV and the newspapers.

The last point is about strengthening the electoral monitoring committee. They should be given more authority so that they will make sure the process is inline with the constitution and the code of conduct is implemented