Policy Brief
A Near End to Somalia's Election Conundrum?
Dr Mohamed Husein Gaas, Professor Stig Jarle Hansen · March 2022
Abstract
The Somali electoral process is nearing its end. Plagued by postponements and totalitarian tendencies, it has been shaped by a combination of clan factors, financial resources, real political agendas, alliance-building and political images — a hybrid system that has, for all its faults, given opposition candidates a chance to win. Continued checks and balances, including in the federal system, are needed for it to function in the long run.
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