The SYL enforced party discipline under threat of expulsion during the confidence vote.
Evidence
At an urgent SYL central committee meeting the decision was made that all SYL MPs who were in Mogadishu would take part in the vote of confidence, which would be open rather than secret. The party also decided that no parliamentary member present at the vote would be allowed to abstain or vote against the government and that anyone who failed to abide by the party’s instruction would be expelled from the party. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 894
Categorization
- XREF: The open-vote vs secret-vote choice directly answers Osman’s ‘sniper’ critique — the party’s remedy for secret-ballot subversion. — connects to: The SYL expelled thirteen deputies who abstained from the confidence vote
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 894