{"id":175286,"date":"2022-05-11T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T07:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175286"},"modified":"2022-05-11T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T07:27:12","slug":"somalia-presidential-elections-record-39-candidates-register-for-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175286","title":{"rendered":"Somalia presidential elections: Record 39 candidates register for vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MOGADISHU, May 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Somalia has registered a record 39 candidates for the presidential elections on May 15, a parliamentary committee tasked with organising the long-delayed polls in the fragile Horn of Africa nation said Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The election is well over a year behind schedule, marred by deadly violence and a power struggle between President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, better known as Farmajo, and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawmakers and senators will choose the next head of state inside Mogadishu’s heavily guarded airport complex in the country battling a decade-long Islamist insurgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The candidates include two previous presidents, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (2012-2017) and Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (2009-2012) as well as former prime minister, Hassan Ali Khaire (2017-2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puntland region president Said Abdullahi Dani and a former foreign minister who also served as deputy minister, Fawzia Yusuf Adan (2012-2014) are also among those who have registered their candidacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winning candidate must secure the backing of two-thirds of the deputies and senators, which means a minimum of 184 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The election will finally end the long political crisis around the vote, postponed multiple times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Farmajo’s term ended in February 2021 without a new vote taking place, he attempted to extend his rule by decree, triggering violent street battles in Mogadishu as rival factions clashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following international pressure, he appointed Roble to seek consensus on a way forward. but the process progressed painfully slowly, stoking fears of further instability in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, 30 of Somalia’s international partners urged the country’s leaders “to conclude this final stage of the electoral process swiftly, peacefully and credibly so that attention can turn to domestic and state-building priorities”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who signed the statement included the African Union and the Arab League as well as Western countries like the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arab states including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as well as Russia and Turkey also signed the statement. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed MOGADISHU, May 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Somalia has registered a record 39 candidates for the presidential elections on May 15, a parliamentary committee tasked with organising the long-delayed polls in the fragile Horn of Africa nation said Tuesday. The election is well over a year behind schedule, marred by deadly violence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175286"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175290,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175286\/revisions\/175290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}