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Prominent Somaliland clan threatens to boycott elections
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    Friday October 28, 2022



    Hargeisa (HOL) - Despite growing criticism of his mandate extension, Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi has reiterated that political parties will be elected before presidential elections in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland.

    During a cabinet meeting on Thursday, President Bihi approved the 2023 budget and allocated $10 million for voter registration and political party elections.

    A prominent clan in Somaliland accused President Muse Bihi Abdi of violating the constitution following a meeting in Burao this week.

    A spokesman for the Garhajis clan's stated that his clan rejected the term extension approved by Somaliland lawmakers earlier this month, saying they would "oppose any extension that is not based on the constitutions or consensus-based political agreement."

    A clan communiqué called for elections to be held while Muse Bihi still had a legal mandate to govern and threatened to boycott the polls.

    "The clan calls for an inclusive and consensus-based agreement between political parties for the presidential election based on the time span scheduled by the National Election Commission before the 13th of November 2022, which is the last day of the legal presidential term of the president and the vice president. If such agreement is not reached, no election will take place in territories inhabited by the Garhajis clan."

    The clan resides in many parts of Hargeisa, Burco, and Eerigaabo.

    At least five people were killed, and 100 were injured in the Somaliland region in August after security forces clashed with protesters calling for presidential elections in November.

    Somaliland lawmakers granted President Muse Bihi Abdi a two-year term extension last month, ahead of his mandate expiry in November.

    Due to time and financial constraints, among other things, the region's electoral body announced that a presidential election scheduled for November had been postponed until sometime in 2023.

     

     





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