Parliamentarians assumed Sharmarkee would be renominated PM after the 1964 election

Evidence

Once the parliamentary election of March 1964 was concluded attention immediately turned to the formation of the new government, and the central political question was whom the president would nominate as prime minister. Nearly a majority of parliamentarians and the general population presumed that the sitting prime minister, who had overseen the successful parliamentary election in the midst of Ethiopian military aggression would be renominated. As a result a constant stream of new and old members of parliament flocked to the home and office of Sharmarkee, each one eager to impress him with his qualifications for a cabinet post. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 698

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 698