{"id":121532,"date":"2026-03-09T23:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/?p=121532"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:20:56","slug":"121532","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2026\/03\/121532\/","title":{"rendered":"Samira Gaid, a political analyst, said that President Hassan Sheikh is being cautious about defining the new constitution for his term."},"content":{"rendered":"

Samira Gaid, a security analyst at the Balqis think tank, said it was unclear how the constitutional changes would affect the country\u2019s politics or the current president\u2019s term.<\/p>\n

Samira, speaking to Reuters, said President Hassan Sheikh is being careful not to announce that he is extending his term, which could lead to criticism from the international community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe constitutional change does not directly extend the term of the current Somali president, but it is a matter that requires interpretation. For now, the president is being careful not to announce that he is extending his term because of possible criticism from the international community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also said that the elections scheduled for May will be postponed, as there is still no agreed electoral process, with the opposition opposing the new constitution and the extension.<\/p>\n

However, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed the country’s new constitution yesterday, after both houses of parliament approved it on March 4.<\/p>\n

The new constitution stipulates that the presidential term is five years, and that a person cannot hold both a ministerial and a parliamentary seat.<\/p>\n

Its implementation will affect the structure of Somalia’s government, with most government ministers being members of both the lower and upper houses of parliament.<\/p>\n

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Samira Gaid, a security analyst at the Balqis think tank, said it was unclear how the constitutional changes would affect the country\u2019s politics or the current president\u2019s term. Samira, speaking to Reuters, said President Hassan Sheikh is being careful not to announce that he is extending his term, which could lead to criticism from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhacdoyinka-caalamka","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121548,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121532\/revisions\/121548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}