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The long anticipated election in Galmudug which dominated the political discourse for the past few months, is about to be concluded today. On January 17th, Mohamed Nuur Ga’al became the second elected Speaker of the nascent Federal Member State, after receiving 54 votes from the newly selected Member of Parliament while his opponent, Abdinasir Aden Osman received 34 votes and one vote was declared invalid. Ga’al is the FGS candidate for this post as he is from the same clan as the Prime Minister and have been working as a senior adviser to PM Khaiyre. Since both PM Khaiyre and President Farmajo hail from Galmudug and due to the ongoing FMS-FGS contestation, the stakes are high for the current FGS leaders and if their presidential candidate, Mr. Qoor-Qoor fails to win the presidential election in Galmudug, winning the national 2020-2021 elections will become a difficult task if not impossible for the current FGS leaders. For this reason, the FGS is not leaving anything to chance and have successfully pushed back AWJS from Dhusamareb by covertly increasing the presence of FGS forces in the city forcing the ASWJ Sufi leaders to become guests in their own home town. Other leaders such as the current President of Galmudug Mr. Haaf and others, have ‘decided’ to operate from Kalkayo town or outside Dhusamareb. On January 19th, President Haaf announced from Kalkayo what he called the new Members of Parliament of Galmudug, a total number of 69 MPs including members from PM Khaiyre and President Farmajo clans. He is expected to appoint new cabinet very soon. On January 29th, Chief minister of Galmudug, Sheekh Shaakir of ASWJ was elected by the Sufi group as the new president of Galmudug. With the anticipated election in Dhusamareb today, Galmudug will have three competing governments, each having […]