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Somalia announces parliamentary and presidential elections for 2027

Somalia announced on Thursday that parliamentary and presidential elections would be held next year, despite an increasingly fractured political landscape and worries over mounting instability.

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00:00Somalia will hold parliamentary and presidential elections next year, the country's election commission announced on Thursday.
00:09President Hassan Sheikh Mohammed's term ended in May, and he declared a one-year transition period, despite an agreement with
00:18the opposition to hold elections.
00:21Now, authorities say parliamentary elections will take place on April 15, followed by the presidential vote a month later.
00:30Mohammed has been trying to move the country from an indirect clan-based electoral system towards universal suffrage.
00:39He's been met with opposition from regional leaders who view his efforts as a power grab.
00:45Since 1991, elections have been held through a complex, indirect process where major clans and sub-clans use their numbers
00:54and influence to win key leadership positions.
00:58The system has been criticised by some for lacking merit, as well as being a source of power struggles and
01:06political instability.
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