{"id":2811,"date":"2025-12-24T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sahanpost.com\/en\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:53:05","slug":"somalias-future-council-once-again-rejects-mogadishu-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahanpost.com\/en\/somalias-future-council-once-again-rejects-mogadishu-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia\u2019s Future Council Once Again Rejects Mogadishu Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8211; The opposition &#8220;Future Council of Somalia&#8221; has reiterated its rejection of the upcoming election for the Benadir Regional District Council, scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eMembers including former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, former Prime Ministers Hassan Ali Khayre and Mohamed Hussein Roble, and Abdirahman Abdishakur, in a press conference held in Mogadishu, described the Mogadishu election as a unilateral process that cannot be called an election.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eThey stated they would not recognize the results of this election, characterizing it as being solely managed by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud with no real competitors.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eAmong the accusations leveled by the opposition are that the company managing the election equipment is owned by members of President Hassan Sheikh\u2019s JSP party, and that it is unclear who is actually being elected.<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\n\u200eThe Future Council of Somalia stated that what is happening in Mogadishu is not a legitimate election, but rather a process driven by a specific agenda related to extending time in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8211; The opposition &#8220;Future Council of Somalia&#8221; has reiterated its rejection of the upcoming election for the Benadir Regional District Council, scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday. \u200e \u200eMembers including former&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-somalia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Somalia\u2019s Future Council Once Again Rejects Mogadishu Election | SahanPost - English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sahanpost.com\/en\/somalias-future-council-once-again-rejects-mogadishu-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Somalia\u2019s Future Council Once Again Rejects Mogadishu Election | SahanPost - English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MOGADISHU &#8211; The opposition &#8220;Future Council of Somalia&#8221; has reiterated its rejection of the upcoming election for the Benadir Regional District Council, scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday. \u200e \u200eMembers including former&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sahanpost.com\/en\/somalias-future-council-once-again-rejects-mogadishu-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SahanPost - English\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/1ALnFYtXWH\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-24T16:53:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sahanpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/1000110202.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"660\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"298\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"M. 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