President Osman resisted expanding parliament before the 1964 vote.

Evidence

In the meantime, parliament discussed whether to expand the number of seats in parliament before the election, but the president resisted this proposition and told those behind the proposal that this could be entertained only after the election and that any expansion should be based on actual population figures. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 676

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Category: Factual Claims

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