{"id":417135,"date":"2023-05-25T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=417135"},"modified":"2023-05-25T19:05:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T16:05:29","slug":"historic-day-for-puntland-state-of-somalia-as-people-cast-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/historic-day-for-puntland-state-of-somalia-as-people-cast-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic day for Puntland State of Somalia as people cast votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mogadishu, (SONNA) – A historic day for Somalia’s Punland State as people gather to cast their votes since 1967 which was the last time people voted in a one-man-one vote in Somalia on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Voters in <\/span>Bosaso<\/span>, <\/span>Galkayo<\/span>, <\/span>Burtinle<\/span>, <\/span>Badhan<\/span>, <\/span>Dhahar<\/span> and other towns in <\/span>Somalia<\/span>\u2019s <\/span>Puntland<\/span> State turn out in large numbers for local government elections. <\/span><\/p>\n

Seven political associations compete with 3,775 candidates, including 28.2% women and notable representation of young candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voters in <\/span>Somalia<\/span>\u2019s <\/span>Puntland<\/span> State waited patiently, some over an hour before polling stations opened on Thursday morning, to cast ballots in the historic local government elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

People queued in lines to participate in the elections to mark the first election in more than 50+ years to be held in Puntland State.<\/p>\n

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Mogadishu, (SONNA) – A historic day for Somalia’s Punland State as people gather to cast their votes since 1967 which was the last time people voted in a one-man-one vote in Somalia on Thursday. Voters in Bosaso, Galkayo, Burtinle, Badhan, Dhahar and other towns in Somalia\u2019s Puntland State turn out in large numbers for local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":417142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417135","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\/417135","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417159,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417135\/revisions\/417159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}