The new government balanced portfolios evenly across the three clan groups.
Evidence
The new and enlarged government, formed in June after protracted negotiation, consisted of fifteen Ministers and Under-Secretaries evenly distributed amongst the Darod, Hawiye and Digil and Rahanweyn groups of clans. The two most prominent figures in the last category were Muhammad ‘Abdi Nur, Minister of Industry, and ‘Abdi Nur Muhammad Husseyn, Minister of General Affairs and former Vice-President of the H.D.M.S. The generous allocation of portfolios demonstrates better than anything else the success of the S.Y.L. campaign amongst the Digil and Rahanweyn. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 414
Categorization
- XREF: Clan-power-sharing formula prefigures the 4.5 formula debates in post-collapse Somali politics decades later.
Related
- Factional strife within the S.Y.L. weakened the new Somali government (similarity 0.80)
- The S.Y.L. drew half its membership from Darod clans (similarity 0.79)
- Somali clan-families gained new political vitality only under modern party competition (similarity 0.78)
- Electoral success deepened the S.Y.L.’s internal clan divisions (similarity 0.78)