Parliament looks like picking a new president on 15 May because the incumbent has alienated far too many MPs, Looked at from the perspective of last April, the latest political developments seem improbable, even absurd. A year ago Mogadishu was on a war footing and President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed Farmajo was doing everything in his power to stay on, even if it meant damaging national institutions carefully built up over the years and factionalising the security forces. Some in Mogadishu even accuse him of conspiring with Al Shabaab to postpone the polls by allowing bomb attacks.
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Farmajo s rival presidential candidates are so fed up with his manipulations of the electoral process they are calling for a boycott and mobilising their militias, Unable to negotiate with President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed Farmajo or curb his manipulation of the polls to ensure he can return as president, the alliance of the presidential candidates opposed to him – the Council of Presidential Candidates (CPC) – has called on its supporters to boycott the electoral process.