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Mr. Sharmarke asked the MPs to give him 14 more days to select a new cabinet that they will be able to approve them.
Sources familiar with the issue say more than hundred MPs showed a sense of opposition for the new cabinet which they wanted to be excluded members within the new cabinet including Abdikareem Guleed, Interior Minister Farah Abdulkadir, Minister of Justice, Abullahi Sanbaloolshe, Minister of Security and Husein Abdi Halane, Minister of Finance.
It is not about the MPs that have the decision to say NO or Yes any selected new cabinet, but also the formed regional governments such as Southwest, Puntland and Jubaland wants to be pleased for putting their men in the offices. It is reported that Presidents of Ahmed Mohamed Islam of Jubaland and Abdiweli Gas of Puntland and Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan of SouthWest had their influential when it comes to power sharing.
United Nations , EU and EU had threatened to cut funds and UN accused Somali Parliaments for receiving bribes from President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's party of Damul Jadiid to oust the late two PMs Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed and his processor Abdi Farah Shirdon.
Sharmarke announced his new cabinet earlier this week. However, there has been a standoff within the national assembly on approving the new cabinet, which largely comprised of former cabinet ministers.
Sharmarke , former PM and Somali Ambassador to the United States, was appointed as Premier in December last year, after his predecessor was ousted through motion of no confidence.
However, Somalia's President has failed to maintain 117,000,000 Million U.S dollar "Go to School project" in Somalia and 300 school teachers strike over unpaid salaries.
The project is reportedly funded by donors yet where the allotted money for the teachers remain misery . UNICEF pays 100 dollar per teacher and government had to pay 100 but teachers'complaints still there.
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