Kulmiye wins the web poll but UDUB wins the real thing.
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(Somaliland Net) - Somaliland Net been asking along the visitors of the site, that who will win the Somaliland Parliament Elections. We asked 2838 visitors and here are the result of the web poll. |
Posted By Mohamed Ghalib Musa. |
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UCID 710 25.02 %
Kulmiye 968 34.11 %
UDUB 947 33.37 %
I Don't Know 213 7.51 %
TOTAL 2838 ..
President Dahir Riyale Kahin's Udub party, or Pillar, won 33 seats, the opposition Kulmiye party won 28 seats and U'id, which is the Somali acronym for The Party for Justice and Welfare, won 21, said National Electoral Commission Chairman Ahmed Haji Ali Adami.
UDUB Party won 33 Seats
Kulmiye won 28 Seats
UCID Party won 21
Somaliland's Constitutional Court will announce the final results within 20 days, after verifying the provisional numbers and investigating any complaints filed by candidates.
Spokesmen for the opposition parties said they were satisfied with the results of the Sept. 29 parliamentary polls.
"We are happy, especially with how transparent the (election) process was," said Yusuf Mohamed Guled of Uid. "Unlike previous elections, this one was indisputable."
The polls are the latest step in Somaliland's efforts to set up democratically elected state structures. The breakaway republic has already held a referendum over independence from the rest of Somalia as well as presidential and local polls.
Kahin won the 2003 presidential elections. His party won the 2002 single-party local polls. The majority of voters endorsed Somaliland's secession from the rest of Somalia in a 1999 referendum.
The parties fielded 246 candidates in total to compete seats in the 82-member legislature. Somaliland has had a parliament since 1991, but until now lawmakers have been chosen by their clans through a process of consultation rather than voting.
Politicians and residents hope that these elections will boost Somaliland's chances of gaining international recognition.
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