Opposition Leaders Forum meeting in Mogadishu.

Sunday, November 22, 2020. Opposition candidates have been meeting in Mogadishu for two days to discuss the upcoming elections. Former Somali information minister and current presidential candidate Dahir Mohamud Guelleh has given details about the 2021 Somali presidential candidates' consultative meeting that opened in Mogadishu yesterday.

The conference will be to three days, and will be current Somalia election process to continue demanding their candidates.

The meeting comes at a time when the government and opposition leaders are at loggerheads over the government's appointment of a new election commission. Opposition groups accused the government included members of the army, intelligence and civil servant and the opposition leaders rejected all these members to be in the in the election commission any more.

Speaking at the end of the first phase of the conference this afternoon, Dahir Guelleh said that the candidates for the presidency of Somalia who gathered at the meeting today saw a great threat to the fledgling democracy in Somalia.

Dahir Guelleh also said that today's meeting was a pardon for the candidates, and that the conference would be a way to save the future of Somalia, he said.

"These candidates felt that the fledgling democracy of Somalia was about to turn into a powerful dictatorship, and that this was a threat to the whole country. We have the power to remove it, and we can," said Dahir Mohamud Guelleh.

Most of these candidates have arrived in Mogadishu in recent days, and have joined forces to protest against the conduct of the country's elections, which they are vying for.

It is expected that the conference will result in a joint resolution by opposition leaders on the country's upcoming elections.

The candidates have the most complaints from the nominated members of the Electoral and Dispute Resolution Commissions, and are expected to take a unanimous decision at the meeting.

Candidates Hassan Ali Kheyre, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Abdirahman Abdishakur, Abdikadir Osoble Ali, Dahir Mohamud Guelleh, Musstaf Sheikh Ali Duhulow, Abdikarin Hussein Guled, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden and others attended the conference in Mogadishu today. , which is set to conclude next Monday.

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