{"id":407305,"date":"2021-10-25T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=407305"},"modified":"2021-10-25T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:20:10","slug":"puntland-state-holds-historic-local-election-in-three-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/puntland-state-holds-historic-local-election-in-three-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Puntland State holds historic local election in three towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-Puntland State on Monday morning held local election in Qardho, Eyl and Ufeyn towns, as over 30&#8217;000 people registered to cast votes in 54 polling station, SONNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>Puntland electoral commission said that a total of 449 candidates will contest for 87 local council seats<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I have cast my vote in Qardho. Today is the begining of returning power to the people to choose their political representatives and determine their future. This is a vital milestone for Puntland and Somalia, engaging citizens in Puntland on one person, one vote&#8221;, Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni said in twitter post.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-407307\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/555-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Somali leaders and observers welcomed the historic election in Puntland State today, noting that well-prepared election commission is leading the process.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director of\u00a0 Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, Prof. Afyare A. Elmi was among observers staying in Qardho and tweeted the post blew.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-407306\" src=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Local-elections.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Local-elections.jpg 590w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Local-elections-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Local-elections-553x420.jpg 553w, https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Local-elections-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The result of the on-going election is expected to come out tomorrow on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu(SONNA)-Puntland State on Monday morning held local election in Qardho, Eyl and Ufeyn towns, as over 30&#8217;000 people registered to cast votes in 54 polling station, SONNA reported. Puntland electoral commission said that a total of 449 candidates will contest for 87 local council seats &#8221; I have cast my vote in Qardho. Today is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":407308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-407305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407309,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407305\/revisions\/407309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}