After several weeks of political infighting that has divided the Somaliland region's lower house of parliament, representatives on Wednesday (February 19th) reached an agreement to break the political impasse.
The political tension in parliament started January 27th when the House of Representatives passed a bill that aimed to weaken the power of the two deputy speakers by reducing the number of votes needed to unseat them from 55 to 42, while retaining the two-thirds majority needed to remove the speaker. The tension escalated February 9th when more than 50 lawmakers proposed to reduce the number of votes necessary to remove all three speakers to 42.
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