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President Bihi's term is extended by another two years by Somaliland's house of elders.

 


President Muse Bihi Abdi's time in office in Somaliland has been extended by two years by the House of Elders. The speaker of the house, Sulayman Mohamud Adan, said that MPs approved the president's request for a term extension by a vote of 72 to 1, with one abstention. On the other hand, Somaliland’s house of Elders extended their term for five more years.

At least five individuals lost their lives and 100 were injured in protests in August as participants urged the staging of elections in November.They worried that the president will cancel the vote and keep his current position.

The Somaliland National Electoral Commission later declared that the election has been moved from the originally scheduled date of November 13 to July 2023 because of scheduling, technical, and budgetary difficulties.

The president's term was set to end next month after taking office in 2017. This comes days after Somaliland’s national electoral commission announced they need 9 months to hold the presidential election. During this period, the commission said they will prepare all the election requirements including voter registration.

President Bihi’s initial mandate was due to expire next month, but his new mandate will be ending on 13/12/2024 after 72 out of 74 have voted for the extension.

This is not the first time a Somaliland president gets a term office extension as the house of elders; the only chamber that has the authority to make such extensions for Presidents had Made similar extensions for former Presidents.

Somaliland has been mired in a political impasse for the last months over the sequence and the time of elections which still remains unsolved.

 

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