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what is 4.5?

Why 4.5 instead of 5? why call the minority clans 0.5?

is Isaaq included in 4.5?

Is this new or did it exist during Siad Barre times?

How is it used in governance today?

it was coined by IOG.

Somali stupidity at its best

blood wrote:it was coined by IOG.

Independent Oil and Gas?

sav12600 wrote:Somali stupidity at its best

It's actually a nice idea for power sharing amongst clans

somaliler wrote:what is 4.5?

Why 4.5 instead of 5? why call the minority clans 0.5?

is Isaaq included in 4.5?

Is this new or did it exist during Siad Barre times?

How is it used in governance today?

It's not from the Barre era, I believe it came about to be during the Djibouti reconciliation conference in 2000 and seems to be the fairest way of dividing the seats in parliament, so every clan, majority as well as minority get their number of seats.

So you have the 4 major clans which are the majority in Somalia. Hawiye, darood, digilandMirifle and Dir( Isaaq are counted as dir)

So the minorities are a minority, therefore they don't make up to 5, making the power sharing structure 4.5.

Makes sense ?

Susu000 wrote:

somaliler wrote:what is 4.5?

Why 4.5 instead of 5? why call the minority clans 0.5?

is Isaaq included in 4.5?

Is this new or did it exist during Siad Barre times?

How is it used in governance today?

It's not from the Barre era, I believe it came about to be during the Djibouti reconciliation conference in 2000 and seems to be the fairest way of dividing the seats in parliament, so every clan, majority as well as minority get their number of seats.

So you have the 4 major clans which are the majority in Somalia. Hawiye, darood, digilandMirifle and Dir( Isaaq are counted as dir)

So the minorities are a minority, therefore they don't make up to 5, making the power sharing structure 4.5.

Makes sense ?

This is a great explanation

Is there any place where I can get a detailed look into this system of power sharing written in English though? Everything I've found on the Internet on 4.5 is written in Somali

4.5 is based on Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, the survival of the fittest, if you will.

barbarossa wrote:4.5 is based on Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, the survival of the fittest, if you will.

More like survival in numbers

Who exactly are the .5 markaa

Thuganomics wrote:Who exactly are the .5 markaa

Jareer, Cadcad, Ashraaf and Tumaal.

somaliler wrote:

Thuganomics wrote:Who exactly are the .5 markaa

Jareer, Cadcad, Ashraaf and Tumaal.

Thanks sxb.Laakiin I don't think labelling anybody as a .5 is going to endear them to take part in any project

Thuganomics wrote:

somaliler wrote:

Thuganomics wrote:Who exactly are the .5 markaa

Jareer, Cadcad, Ashraaf and Tumaal.

Thanks sxb.Laakiin I don't think labelling anybody as a .5 is going to endear them to take part in any project

I was ignorant on what it was but now that I've learnt what 4.5 is I no longer think it's insulting to label them as .5

It's a good system.

I believe it's really unfair

NubianQueen97 wrote:I believe it's really unfair

Why? There is no better system for Somalis! minorities are well represented