Somalia: Hassan Cheikh Mohamoud elected president in the third round

Hassan Cheikh Mohamoud is elected president of Somalia on May 15, 2022. © REUTERS / Feisal Omar

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Hassan Cheikh Mohamoud was elected Sunday, May 15, President of Somalia after a marathon vote in the third round of voting.

He had led the country from 2012 to 2017. He faced outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, says Farmajo.

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Parliament officials counted more than 165 votes out of 329 in favor of ex-president Mohamoud.

Five after his departure, he returns to the head of state after this victory against the outgoing president.

Explosions were heard near the airport as voting began, a reminder of how precarious the security situation remains in the country.

After hours of voting, broadcast on national television, the electoral process has entered its third and final phase with the two candidates still in the running, outgoing President Farmajo and his predecessor Hassan Cheikh Mohamoud, as five years ago.

Farmajo contested after the extension of his mandate

Farmajo's term had expired in February 2021, without an agreement with regional leaders on the organization of new elections.

The two-year extension of his mandate by MPs in April 2021 had

, reviving the memory of the decades of civil war that ravaged the country after 1991. Recent months have also been marked by a growing rivalry between Farmajo and its Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble whom he had charged with organizing the elections.

►Also read: Portrait of the new president during his election in 2012

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