{"id":28922,"date":"2016-09-26T02:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T02:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somalia-s-parliamentary-election-postponed-again\/"},"modified":"2016-09-26T02:30:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T02:30:51","slug":"somalia-s-parliamentary-election-postponed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somalia-s-parliamentary-election-postponed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia&#8217;s parliamentary election postponed again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Somalia has postponed for the second time elections to choose new parliamentarians in the country following disagreement on how to select future members.}<\/p>\n<p>Voting for the 275 seat parliament was scheduled to start this weekend and end on October 10, with new lawmakers set to appoint a president on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Facing an ongoing threat from the al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group al Shabaab, Somalia abandoned plans for a \u2018one person one vote election. \u2018<\/p>\n<p>Instead about 14,000 people representing federal states across the nation will choose members of the legislative assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Although a fraction of Somalia\u2019s 11 million people, it is more than the 135 elders who picked the outgoing parliament in 2012.Government officials were not immediately available to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The election was originally planned for last month, but it was postponed to complete preparations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15289 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1024x576_344945.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Somalia has postponed for the second time elections to choose new parliamentarians in the country following disagreement on how to select future members.} Voting for the 275 seat parliament was scheduled to start this weekend and end on October 10, with new lawmakers set to appoint a president on Oct. 30. Facing an ongoing threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[100],"byline":[2539],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-africa","byline-africa-news"],"bylines":[{"id":2539,"name":"Africa News","slug":"africa-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2539,"name":"Africa News","slug":"africa-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28922"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28922"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}