THE 2016 ELECTORAL PROCESS IN SOMALIA

Somali society is divided into a dizzying number of clans, subclans, sub-clans and sub-sub-clans
based on lineages. A political transition is therefore necessary to reconstitute and legitimize the
country's political institutions in 2016 where an electoral process was developed to facilitate
greater political participation compared to 2012 and power between clans should nominate at
least two candidates for each seat and will elect the 54 members of the Upper House to
Somaliland, regions of Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle. Each regional state will reserve 30% of its
seats in the upper house for exclusively female candidates The elections in Somalia are indirectly
registered for corruption due to certain politicians in power who buy the votes with a sum of
values to take advantage against their adversary and others appeared in parliamentary disputes
alongside a politician who was bribed or coerced to run against them so that the race seemed fair
and could be killed for revealing how the process actually worked. This process is indirect and
they considered it too dangerous to hold direct elections because of the persistent threat of the
Shabab militant group, which has killed thousands of people throughout East Africa. In 2012
there was a lot of fraud in the clan-based voting process, when President Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud in 2012, many of the clan members received a $ 5,000 bribe to choose the clan
representative in Parliament. The slogans on the election posters are: "Justice" Peace, ""
Development, "" We Are All Brothers " In 2016 a new model of innovative elections financed
and observed by the united nations due to the unstoppable threats of the radical group and
terrorist alshabab was realized. Western diplomats pressed for a broader and more inclusive
process in which the 275 members of the lower house of Parliament were selected by clan groups
of 51 delegates per committee. Western diplomats said they believed that having 51 votes instead
of one for each seat would make bribery more difficult. And in these elections were considered
the most fraudulent in the history of the country. Somalia has been in crisis since 1991, when
clan-based warlords destroyed the country and a famine broke out. The Shabab threats made it
difficult to hold popular elections in many parts of the country, so Western supporters supported
a more limited voting process based on traditional Somali clans. This system of elections
generated corruption of corruption all stages were distorted and that some seats in Parliament
were for more than $ 1 million each. Twenty candidates were reduced to three after the first
round - including incumbent Hassan Sheikh Mohamud who had been accused of buying votes.
The process involved more Somalis and, in particular, more women than before. this process
began with 14,000 senior citizens and regional figures, choosing 275 members of parliament and
54 senators, "who then chose a president and clustered around the TVs, watching the
proceedings unfold." Mohamed easily won the first round of voting for 88 to 72 votes in more
than 20. In the second round of voting, the other presidential candidates bet on Mohamed, who
won, 184 to 97. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a former prime minister, was chosen for the
highest position, heading a clan-based electoral process that had been widely criticized as corrupt
even by Somali politicians who took part in it.The president-elect is considered the least corrupt
and well-regarded candidate by the Somalis.Western diplomats hailed Mohamed as the most
organized and least crooked of the contenders. The president was elected by parliament because
Somalia was not ready for a national popular vote. Mr. Mohamed, born in 1962, had a good
reputation as a prime minister. As soon as he took office in 2010, he set up a payroll system for
the soldiers, shrunk a bloated cabinet and spoke out against corruption. Mr. Mohamed, born in
1962, had a good reputation as a prime minister. As soon as he took office in 2010, he set up a
payroll system for the soldiers. The 2014 electoral process was not an election by universal
suffrage but an indirect election with a system of 51 135 Traditional Elders, who will elect the
275 members or 275 deputies of the Somali Parliament with a total of 14,025 delegates 135
traditional elders responsible for the selection of delegates, each composed of 51 delegates, with
at least 16 women and 10 young people. The criteria for candidates for Somali citizens and sub-
clans is to have 25 years with high school diploma or equivalent male experience and a
registration fee of $ 5,000 for females and $ 2,500 for males. A seat in the Upper House male
registration of $ 10,000 female and $ 5,000
Members of parliament were selected in the 2016 electoral process, while in 2012, 4.5 clan-
based power sharing was allocated. More than a hundred times more Somalis will participate in
2012 135 elders elected the parliament members, while in 2016, 14,025 members distributed in
275 electoral colleges will choose deputies.
The parliamentary vote four years ago took place in Mogadishu, but in 2016 voting will take
place in six cities across the country, including Mogadishu. Voting for was by secret ballot