Schools are run by the states and municipalities, which complicates things for the government.

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The rivalry between the current president, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, and the parliamentary speaker, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, complicates things further.

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He adds that the verdict "complicates things for a party that is trying to find an easy transition, a new identity and new alliances" and that it needs to explain to the electorate "how much the legacy of Berlusconi still casts a shadow on the present".

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