Parliament removed Speaker Absiyeh by an eighty-five to thirty-three vote

Evidence

During the course of the day the parliamentary committee endorsed the legality of the motion, which the Supreme Court also sanctioned, and Ahmed then had no legal grounds to impede the process. On March 2, parliament was back in session and debated the case against its Speaker. Absiyeh realized that he could not hinder the process and consequently handed over the responsibility of the assembly to one of his deputy Speakers. Not too many MPs came to the floor to defend the Speaker, and on March 3, Hussen reported to Osman, by phone, that the assembly Speaker had been removed from office and that the tally of the votes was eighty-five for the motion and thirty-three against; one MP abstained. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 869

Categorization

• XREF: Shows Supreme Court sanctioning parliamentary process, a key constitutional check operating in 1960s Somalia.