As the country prepares for the upcoming elections in 2020 and 2021, President Mohamed Farmaajo has hinted at plans to scrap the traditional clan-based electoral model.
With time running out for the first round of elections expected to take place in October 2020, President Farmaajo insists clan-based polls are now a thing of the past.
He made this announcement during the official opening of the Federal Parliament while being jeered by parliamentarians who termed him a “failure.”
His announcement comes hot on the pressure exerted upon the National Independent Electoral Agency (NIEC) to announce electoral timetable, dates, and model to be used.
NIEC was to address parliament during its initial planned reopening in late May but those plans were shelved when the reopening was postponed to June.
Somalia last practiced the one-person-one-vote model, which has proved quite popular among voters, in the late 1960s.