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(Mogadishu) 15 April 2022<\/strong><\/span> – Most of Somalia’s new MPs have been sworn in following a unique election for its parliament – known as the House of the People. But the people did not vote in a poll that has been dragging on for a record four months – more than double the time it took to pull off India’s election<\/a>, the biggest democratic exercise in the world, in which more than 600 million people voted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In Somalia, only a few thousand people voted for a parliament that would represent the nation of around 16.3 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n This is because Somalia uses a complex and indirect political system and political parties do not contest elections. Nor do one-person-one-vote elections take place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Instead, the 275-member House of People is chosen by delegates appointed by clan elders and members of civil society who are selected by regional state officials. The MPs then vote for a president, who leads the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A 54-member lower chamber, the Senate, representing Somalia’s five regional states, also takes part in the presidential vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n It shows the power of clans in Somalia – they form the backbone of a society in which Western-style democracy has not taken root.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n They also fill the vacuum created by the absence of a functioning state – Somalia has not had one since the socialist regime led by Siad Barre collapsed in 1991.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy are MPs chosen like this? <\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n