CIAO DATE: 01/2014
December 2013
In its latest briefing, Somalia: Puntland’s Punted Polls, the International Crisis Group examines the attempt to reconcile clan interests with a democratic constitution for a regional administration whose development is important for establishing a degree of stability in a country that has not had much effective government for a generation. Hopes were once high that Puntland could be an example to Somalia’s other regions, but the democratic transition process has been mostly suspended due to increasing clan grievances and concerns over the weakness of political and judicial institutions charged with overseeing elections. If the election of the president by parliament next month is disputed, tensions could easily escalate to violence.
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