UCID

UCID supporters, dressed in the colors of the Somaliland flag , at a rally leading up to the 2005 general election

The Justice and Welfare Party ( Somali Ururka Caddaalada iyo Daryeelka , abbreviated to UCID ; English Justice and Welfare Party or For Justice and Development , "For justice and development"; according to other information, Ururka Cadaaladda iyo Dimoqraadiga , "Justice and Democracy Party ”) is the second largest opposition political party founded in 2001 in Hargeysa in Somaliland, which is not recognized internationally .

Alignment

Of the three parties in Somaliland, the UCID was most likely formed to represent a specific political program. She advocates the idea of liberal democracy and the establishment of a welfare state based on the Western model. Many party cadres come from the Somaliland diaspora, especially from Scandinavia. Its success is greatest with urban voters, especially in the capital Hargeysa , and also in the Saaxil region with the port city of Berbera .

Like the other parties, Kulmiye is politically neutral and has members and supporters from all clans. Initially, it had its support base mainly in the Woqooyi Galbeed region in the Eidagalla subclan of the Isaaq , to which party chairman Faysal Ali Warabe belongs. In 2005, however, a large part of the Habar-Yunis-Isaaq also chose the UCID instead of the ruling party UDUB .

The UCID is an observer at the Socialist International .

Election results

In the 2002 local elections, the UCID received 11.24% of the vote. It was thus one of the three parties with the largest number of voters that were permanently admitted, although it was only around 1,500 votes ahead of the fourth-strongest SAHAN (Somaliland Alliance for Islamic Democracy).

In the 2003 presidential election, her candidate Faysal Ali Warabe got 15.85% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections in 2005, the UCID gained 26.9% of the vote and thus achieved 21 of 82 seats. It formed a coalition with the other opposition party, Kulmiye , which has a majority of 49 seats.

In the 2010 presidential election , Warabe received around 17% of the vote.