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
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