{"id":453851,"date":"2025-12-25T22:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=453851"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:23:43","slug":"prime-minister-hails-historic-vote-congratulates-somalis-on-restoring-democratic-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/prime-minister-hails-historic-vote-congratulates-somalis-on-restoring-democratic-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Hails Historic Vote, Congratulates Somalis on Restoring Democratic Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu (SONNA) \u2013 The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, H.E. Hamza Abdi Barre, has issued a message to the Somali people\u2014particularly residents of the capital\u2014following the successful conclusion of today\u2019s historic elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister congratulated citizens on what he described as a new chapter in Somalia\u2019s history, praising voters for their patience, resilience, and courage in exercising their democratic rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to you all for writing a new chapter in our history. You have demonstrated patience, determination, and bravery. Today, you reclaimed rights that had been lost or absent for more than 56 years\u2014the right to freely choose your leaders or to be chosen. Through your votes, you have expressed your will and placed the country firmly on the path of democracy and freedom,\u201d Prime Minister Hamza said.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced that the Somali people can expect positive and encouraging news in the near future regarding the country\u2019s ongoing development and progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu (SONNA) \u2013 The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, H.E. Hamza Abdi Barre, has issued a message to the Somali people\u2014particularly residents of the capital\u2014following the successful conclusion of today\u2019s historic elections. The Prime Minister congratulated citizens on what he described as a new chapter in Somalia\u2019s history, praising voters for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":453852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-453851","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\/453851","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=453851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453853,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453851\/revisions\/453853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}