GAROWE-Maryan Abdi Dhegad, is an 84 year old mother who participated in the local councils elections in Somalia’s Puntland State on Thursday.
The elderly mother says this is her second time to cast her vote since the inception of one person one vote elections in Somalia.
Maryan, adds that she was an employee of the Somali government and worked with successive regimes and exuded her happiness in exercising her democratic right to vote.
Voting begins in local council elections in #Somalia's #Puntland State.
Seven political associations are locking horns in the Local Government Elections with a total of 3,775 candidates. Incredibly, 28.2% of the aspirations are women, and there a remarkable representation of… pic.twitter.com/vB4cdZgazo— Frontier Online (@FrontierOnlineK) May 25, 2023
Puntland on Thursday conducted local municipal elections where voters went to the ballot to elect their representatives in the 30 out of the 37 districts amid uproar from opponents calling for its delay in a bid to build consensus.