Nairobi — The Somali transitional parliament on Thursday approved the new cabinet
named by Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Gedi, four weeks after the assembly
rejected his earlier cabinet on the grounds that its selection was
unconstitutional.
The vote was approved by 169 MPs, while 78 voted against. "The size of
those who voted in favour of the government shows that parliament is now
satisfied that the prime minister has satisfied their concerns and
questions", Abdulrahman Aden Ibbi, minister of state for parliamentary
affairs, told IRIN.
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