Constitution of Somaliland
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| Citation | The Constitution of Somaliland (PDF), 1 June 2016, archived from the original (PDF) on 3 November 2021, retrieved 17 February 2021 | |
| Signatories | Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal | |
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The Constitution of the Republic of Somaliland (
History
This was followed by the first Somaliland constitution, which was adopted at the conference of the Somaliland Communities in Hargeisa in February 1997. Under article 151, the constitution shall be implemented for a period of three years from its approval in February 1997 and shall come into force fully once a referendum has been held. There was a provision for this interim period to be increased by the two Houses of Parliament, and in early 2000, the two Houses voted that the period be increased by one year. This was primarily to give more time for the completion of the revision of the constitution (before its submission to the nation at a Referendum) and for putting in place the laws and mechanisms for changing the current "representative" democracy in Somaliland to a popular democracy based on the direct elections of the President of Somaliland and the Parliament of Somaliland.[citation needed]
Although initially the Somaliland government proposed fairly extensive amendments to the constitution in 1999, the final revised constitution is not very different from the last one and the reduction of the number of articles from 156 to 130 has been largely achieved by the amalgamation of some articles, rather than by extensive repeals. Unlike the earlier draft proposals, the parts of the constitution relating to directive principles and to human rights have all been retained. On the whole, the revisions tidied up the constitution and no fundamental changes have been made.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Preamble". Government of Somaliland.
- ^ http://www.somalilandlaw.com/DASTUURKII_HORE_EE_SOMALILAND_1997_-_2000.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://www.slnec.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Dastuurka-Jamhruuyiradda-Somaliland.pdf [dead link]
- ^ "Somaliland queues to vote on breakaway". The Telegraph. 1 June 2001. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- ^ "Making the Somaliland constitution and its role in democratisation and peace". Conciliation Resources. 1 February 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- ^ "Somaliland: The Horn of Africa's Breakaway State". Council Foreign Relations. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
External links
Media related to Constitutions of Somaliland at Wikimedia Commons- Constitution in English
