Somaliland’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has issued a timeline indicating that the country could only hold credible elections in 10 months.
NEC announced this during its working group meeting with various political parties in the country held in Hargeisa on Saturday August 15.
During the meeting, the stakeholders also discussed how to conduct free and fair parliamentary and local elections on time.
NEC provided the political parties with a draft timetable.
Insiders said NEC informed the political parties that it would be ready to hold such elections in not less than the next 10 months.
NEC and the rest of the country would now await the decision of the three main political parties in Somaliland, which are scheduled to debate its propositions.
The parties involved are Kulmiye, which is the ruling party, Wadani and UCID, Somaliland’s two main opposition parties.
Party representatives who were at the meeting with NEC are now expected to forward the polls agency’s suggestions to their leaders for further deliberations.