Article 53 barred presidential dissolution of parliament for two-year stretches

Evidence

Here is how Osman expressed his sentiments: “Ahmed Sh. Mohamed Absiyeh … told me about the usual unhappy representatives who are not sure about their future and fearing that I could dissolve the parliament and publicly announce new elections, once we are past the period of one year from the proclamation of the results of the last election, so they are trying to amend Article 53 of the Constitution, in which the president cannot dissolve the assembly during the first two years after the elections and during the last two years of the mandate of the same president of the republic. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1420

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the exact constitutional constraint of Article 53 governing when the Somali president could dissolve the assembly.