After
months of delays, some 275 Somali MPs and 72 senators will on Wednesday choose
whether to back President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud for a second term, or one of
his 21 other rivals.
The electioneering process has been
marred with corruption and vote-buying, but Somali’s are still hopeful for
change, in the most corrupt country in the world according to a 2016 report by Transparency
International.
The capital Mogadishu was on
security lockdown on Tuesday after an increase in al-Shabab attacks in lead-up
the vote.
The government dropped an initial
plan to give each adult a vote owing to challenges in securing national polling
stations. Instead, about 14,000 clan elders and regional figures chose the 329
lawmakers.
-Africanews
AEP
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