Important question: what is somalia's poltical system? Are we truly a parliamentary Republic

[Som]

There are 3 main poltical systems when it comes to Republics:
1)Presidential Republics were the president with an executive presidency separate from the legislature: example United States. They have no prime minister.
2)Semi presidential Republics were the president has executive powers but there's also a PM. For example: France.
3)Parliamentary Republics were the president is the head of state but is almost cerimonial and the entire political action is in the hands of PM and his governement voted by the parliament. Examples: italy, Germany, ethiopia.
Somalia is supposed to be a parliamentary Republic so the Prime minister should be practically more important than the president but it seems all Somali presidents have huge powers. Everyone is talking about Farmaajo, Hassan Shaykh, Shaykh Sharif etc but PMs seems to have little relevance. Compare this with other parliamentary Republics like italy, Germany or ethiopia. You almost never hear about their presidents because it's the PM who gets stuff done.
The somali poltical system is technically a parliamentary Republic but acts like a presidential/semi Presidential Republic. As president Farmaajo should only follow whatever parliament and governement say as long as it's not unconstitutional. In Ethiopia Abiy is the one who gets stuff done while you almost never hear from their president cause it's almost as cerimonial as the queen in the UK

 

[Som]

Also in parliamentary systems the presidents sings laws passed by parliament but he doesn't really participate. It should basically work like this. PM and his governement are in charge of poltical action, parliament passes laws proposed by either the govt majority or the opposition, if the law passes the President(Farmaajo in our case) either signs or rejects the law. The president can only reject the law only in some cases like if it's unconstitutional , but if its ok he has to sign even if he is personally doesn't agree with the law.Basically the president is the one who guarantees that the rules of the game (constitution) are applied but he isn't himself playing the game. In somalia ALL presidents are huge players in the political process and they basically overrun the parliament constantly

 

[butANumba]

You are right its weird. I think we should keep this unique system. Its not too bad and it seems to be working fine.

 

[Ibro]

Somalia is a federal parliamentary democracy with a quirk.

In the federal Constitution, it stated that in Chapter 7, Article 90.D:

The powers and responsibilities of the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia are to appoint the Prime Minister, and to dissolve the Federal Government if it does not get the
required vote of confidence from the House of the People of the Federal Parliament by a simple majority (50% +1)

So president can choose if federal parliament cannot agree who should be the PM. This was designed to avoid election repeats.

Link to the PDP of the federal provisional constitution.

 

[Dalalos_ibn_Adali]

President-Darood
Prime minister-Hawiye
Vice Prime minister-Isaaq
Speaker of Parliament-Raxanweyne

4.5 system

most of these roles in Somalia overlap and are not clearly defined, so can't really say what system we are running on, what confuses it even more is the federal aspect which takes power away from these 4 position and creates even more undefined roles in FMS.

The constitution which is meant to clearly define these roles is a work in process, and its the job of the parliament and president to complete, so in essence while power is juggled between different roles in the FGS as well as between the FGS and the FMS, it all falls down on the president and parliament.

its somewhat stable system now as the President isn't impulsive but cool headed, but we can't always rely on a cool headed president we need constitution to be very clear on these things.

 

[Aurelian]

There are 3 main poltical systems when it comes to Republics:
1)Presidential Republics were the president with an executive presidency separate from the legislature: example United States. They have no prime minister.
2)Semi presidential Republics were the president has executive powers but there's also a PM. For example: France.
3)Parliamentary Republics were the president is the head of state but is almost cerimonial and the entire political action is in the hands of PM and his governement voted by the parliament. Examples: italy, Germany, ethiopia.
Somalia is supposed to be a parliamentary Republic so the Prime minister should be practically more important than the president but it seems all Somali presidents have huge powers. Everyone is talking about Farmaajo, Hassan Shaykh, Shaykh Sharif etc but PMs seems to have little relevance. Compare this with other parliamentary Republics like italy, Germany or ethiopia. You almost never hear about their presidents because it's the PM who gets stuff done.
The somali poltical system is technically a parliamentary Republic but acts like a presidential/semi Presidential Republic. As president Farmaajo should only follow whatever parliament and governement say as long as it's not unconstitutional. In Ethiopia Abiy is the one who gets stuff done while you almost never hear from their president cause it's almost as cerimonial as the queen in the UK

Exactly, I always wondered about this.
What you think is the best government system, presidential, semipresidental or other?

 

[Som]

Exactly, I always wondered about this.
What you think is the best government system, presidential, semipresidental or other?

I think it depends. For divided countries like Somalia maybe Parliamentarian systems are better. Semi presidential and Presidential can cause divisions if people dislike the president, with parliamentary systems parliament is more involved in decision makings and it's easier to remove the prime minister with a vote of no confidence if necessary