Sahal-
Be wise to heed the political statement it is easier to do something than undue it.
These state joinings will be as permanent as they are during "interim". Once the joint is recognized legitimately, it will be impossible to reconfigure something else.
There will be 5 or 6 federal states. So far four have been marked out. ..the two in the far north, and two in far south...central regions, hiiraan, and middle shabelle are left to be organized
You can't state such thing as there is no one single federal state in somalia right now even the president has said "majiro hal maamul goboleed oon aqoonsanahay!
Regions like puntland is called a semi-autonomous region whatever it calls herself, its not an official name!
You know what is happening there right now even the UN thanks to abdiwali gaas back then when he was the pm, considers many provinces that are claimed by puntland a contested regions
There are many things that support my theory
1-govt rejecting but interim maamuls
2-like I have posted before in front you, the president has said let there be some interim maamuls but in the future all of them should work on their accordance(sidii la isu waafajin lahaa maamuladaas marxalada kumeel gaarka kadib)
Accordance/al tawafuq is a policy well common in the political parties, ex hizpul bacth al arabi al ishtiraki was a union between al hizp al ishtiraki wa hizpul al bacth al arabi, the same goes for jabhat al tawafuq al iraqi.
3- I'm told long time ago and I use to tell it to murax that there are winners and losers because of some countries, the govt will accept the winners as an interim stage but will encourage the come back of the losers as prearrangements ahead of the federal stage!.
Now there is even a talk that is againist the federalism itself and a key international partners may adopt this for being a threat to the stability!
If you think this govt is serious about federalism than your wrong!
Once the security situation changes, some countries will lose their security cards then no excuses!
Federalism and who decides to form a federal state only depends on the govts security situation and these countries military involvements.