BREAKING: Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a former Somali president who was voted out of power in 2017, has been reelected to the country's top job after defeating the incumbent leader in a protracted contest decided by legislators in a third round of voting.
From left to right, former president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, incumbent leader Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, former president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and former prime minister Hassan Ali Khaire, attend a voting session for the presidential election, at the Halane military camp which is protected by African Union peacekeepers, in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, May 15, 2022.
Members of the upper and lower legislative chambers picked the president in secret balloting inside a tent in an airport hangar within the Halane military camp, which is protected by African Union peacekeepers. Mohamud’s election ended a protracted electoral process that raised political tensions — and heightened insecurity concerns — after President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s mandate expired in February 2021 without a successor in place.
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and his immediate predecessor, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, will now contest a third round of voting to be decided by 328 legislators. The field has been whittled down from a long list that featured 36 names in the first round of voting.Analysts predicted that Mohamed — who also is known as Farmaajo because of his appetite for Italian cheese — would face an uphill battle to be reelected.
To discourage extremist violence from disrupting the elections, Somali police put Mogadishu, the scene of regular attacks by the Islamic rebel group al-Shabab, under a lockdown that started at 9 p.m. on Saturday. It means most residents must stay at home until the lockdown lifts on Monday morning, according to police.
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