Somalia will never recognise the secession of Puntland region nor will give Puntland any special autonomy that's different to the other FMS. Somalia's federal system is symmetrical meaning all FMS have the same amount of autonomy each and the FGS shall be supreme
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How is Federal govt supreme, PL created it, PL existed before the federal government. That's reality talk. The rest of the federal regions are paper-based, that's reality.
Well what is the end goal for Somalia, to be a federation or a confederation? The fairest compromise for Somalia is for our country to adopt the UAE model of a decentralised and collegial version of federalism. I repudiate my former support for confederalism
But isn't Puntland to all intents and purposes independent since 1998? You already have special status in reality on the ground but you still are not satisfied....make it make sense pleaseThe ultimate goal is 'federation' as you said, however we don't start federal, we start con-federal as all regional govrnments or if some regions dislike that then PL will have it's own special status of 99 year independence treaty or two system one nation like china n hong kong relationship.
We must start from this 'separate' points and slowly 'merge' over a 'century' time-line into a 'federation'.
Somalia rushed federalism and it's not working as intended. Rushing federalism was a bad mistake as it may not even make it. It's not 'somalinimo' of you to demand PL just sit there waiting for a stable south, that's 'xasidnimo' poltics.
Federalism is a failure for sure. We have two sets of corrupt government now that can blame each other for failuresThe ultimate goal is 'federation' as you said, however we don't start federal, we start con-federal as all regional govrnments or if some regions dislike that then PL will have it's own special status of 99 year independence treaty or two system one nation like china n hong kong relationship.
We must start from this 'separate' points and slowly 'merge' over a 'century' time-line into a 'federation'.
Somalia rushed federalism and it's not working as intended. Rushing federalism was a bad mistake as it may not even make it. It's not 'somalinimo' of you to demand PL just sit there waiting for a stable south, that's 'xasidnimo' poltics.
It would be way better if we were just an independent entity, we would get way more benefits than what we are seeing with Federalism.But isn't Puntland to all intents and purposes independent since 1998? You already have special status in reality on the ground but you still are not satisfied....make it make sense please
The only two options Puntland can take to change the situation is to either outright secede like SL or go set up a parallel federal government based inside Puntland territory