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Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Somaliland on 13 November 2024, [1] the fourth direct presidential elections since 2003. On 24 September 2022 the National Electoral Commission announced that the elections, initially scheduled for 13 November 2022, had been postponed to July 2023. [2] The House of Elders voted on 1 October 2022 to postpone the elections by two years instead of the nine months previously recommended by the National Electoral Commission, effectively scheduling the election for November 2024. [3]
According to the constitution of Somaliland, presidential elections are to be held every 5 years. [4]
Incumbent President Muse Bihi Abdi of Kulmiye is eligible to seek a second term in office, having first been elected in 2017. He is yet to state whether he will choose to do so. [5] The two opposition parties of Waddani and the Justice and Welfare Party are also yet to announce their respective candidates for the presidency. [6]
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Somaliland elects on national level a head of state and a legislature. The president is elected by the people for a five-year term. The Parliament (Baarlamaanka) has two chambers. The House of Representatives will have 82 members, elected for a five-year term. The House of Elders will have 82 members, representing traditional leaders. Somaliland has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
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The House of Elders, also known as the Guurti, is the upper house of the Parliament of Somaliland. It has 82 members, representing traditional leaders. The House of Elders is mandated with considering bills proposed by the lower house of the parliament, the Somaliland House of Representatives.
Presidential elections were held in Somaliland on 26 June 2010. The elections were originally scheduled for August 2008 and numerous delays, endangered political stability in the country. On 1 July 2010, the Somaliland National Election Commission announced that opposition candidate Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud had won the elections, defeating incumbent President Dahir Riyale Kahin.
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Musa Bihi Abdi is a Somaliland politician and former military officer who has been President of Somaliland since December 2017. During the 1970s, he served as a pilot in the Somali Air Force under the Siad Barre administration. In 2010, Bihi was appointed the chairman of the ruling Kulmiye of Republic of Somaliland. In November 2015, Bihi was selected as the party's Presidential Candidate at the 5th annual central committee convention.
The Somaliland National Party, sometimes referred to as the Waddani National Party and better known by its shortened Somali form Waddani, is a political party in Somaliland. The party was founded by Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Irro) in 2012, ahead of the second municipal elections later that year. On 16 November 2021 Hersi Ali Haji Hassan was elected as the new chairman of the opposition party.
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The National Electoral Commission (NEC) is the national election commission of Somaliland.
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Events in the year 2021 in Somaliland.
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Events in the year 2022 in Somaliland.
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