Somali MPs legislated a 24,000 shilling payout for their own electoral losses.

Evidence

The National Assembly was no longer the symbol of free speech and fair play for all citizens. It was now widely regarded cynically as a sordid market-place where, with little concern for the interests of those who had voted for them, deputies traded their votes for personal gain. Deputies were ferried about in sumptuous limousines, bearing the magic registration letters A.N. (Assembled Nazionale) which the inveterate poor of the capital translated with grim humour as anna nolahay: ‘I’m all right, Jack’. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 507 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Somali parliament lost legitimacy as deputies traded votes for personal gain — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 507; Somali parliamentary democracy had by 1969 degenerated into a corrupt vote-trading market; Egal and Yassin openly bribed MPs with central bank funds to secure the presidency (+4 more)

Related

• The Somali parliament lost legitimacy as deputies traded votes for personal gain (similarity 0.90)
• Somali parliamentary democracy had by 1969 degenerated into a corrupt vote-trading market (similarity 0.85)
• Somali MPs in 1967 drafted a bill paying deposed colleagues 24,000 shillings (similarity 0.83)
• Somalia’s parliamentary deputies routinely traded government support for patronage positions. (similarity 0.80)
• Shortly after independence MPs abandoned party lines for personal alliances (similarity 0.80)
• Somali deputies for decades broke promises of support in parliamentary votes. (similarity 0.79)
• Electoral reform and floor-crossing reduced Somalia to a one-party state (similarity 0.79)
• Osman refused to buy votes even knowing it would cost him the presidential election. (similarity 0.78)
• Somali deputies habitually broke voting promises in presidential elections. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Somali parliamentary democracy had by 1969 degenerated into a corrupt vote-trading market #exemplifies (0.70)
• The Somali parliament lost legitimacy as deputies traded votes for personal gain #corroborates (0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 507
• Osman refused to bribe MPs even while his opponents did. #complicates (0.60)
• Egal and Yassin openly bribed MPs with central bank funds to secure the presidency #corroborates (0.50)
• Corrupt MPs escaped prosecution and voted for Sharmarkee. #corroborates (0.50)
• Shortly after independence MPs abandoned party lines for personal alliances #complicates (0.40)
• Osman twice blocked a law paying defeated MPs 24,000 shillings. #responds-to (0.40)