The election will be held indirectly and after the elections for the House of the People, which began on 1 November 2021 and ended by 13 April 2022.

The elections were first scheduled to end on 24 December 2021. However, by 25 December only 24 of 275 representatives had been elected and the ongoing political crisis further complicated matters.

The current president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, has been in office since the February 2017 election and his term expired on 8 February 2021, however it was extended until after the elections would be completed.

On January 10, Somali leaders announced they struck a deal to complete presidential and parliamentary elections by 25 February, after repeated delays that have threatened the stability of the country.

The agreement was reached after several days of talks, hosted by Roble, with state leaders aimed at ending an impasse over the polls.

In February, the presidential election was further postponed to 15 March but it was again further postponed to 31 March in order to complete the election of the House of the People. (ILKHA)