Two absent cabinet ministers nearly cost Hussen the confidence vote.

Evidence

All of Sharmarkee’s ministers, except Abdulkadir Zoppo and Abdullahi Issa, who were members of the new cabinet, cast a vote of no confidence; many others decided to oppose as they felt slighted because their competitors had been appointed. Despite all of this the new government would have won the vote had not two of its ministers been away on official business overseas. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 750

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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