تحالف الحركة الشعبية و الانقاذ مقابل بقاء السودان موحدا!!!

Quote: Mr. Andrew Smith. House Of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear Mr. Andrew Smith I am writing to bring to your kind attention the grievance with the Sudanese authorities of hundreds of Sudanese in oxford. We have been trying to negotiate with Sudanese authorities in Uk and in the Sudan to make it possible for the majority of the Sudanese to vote in the forthcoming very vital for the future of the Sudan elections. It is primarily the millions of Southern Sudanese who are not expected to satisfy the requirements of the elections laws who will not be able to vote. There are for instance at least 400 southern Sudanese in Bolton alone who do not have the required documents. And how could they? People who fled the war, persecution, famine and you name it, are not expected to have such documents on them when on the run; that is if they had them in the first place. There are an estimated 8 million Sudanese in the Diaspora who are dispersed around the four corners of the globe from Yellow Knife in the Canadian Eskimo to Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Rim and there between. Most of those millions are the best educated and trained. They however do not enjoy the basic fundamental human right to elect their representatives in the two houses. The only right that we are left with is electing the president which is often a foregone conclusion as is the case in most Arab countries and the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The Sudanese Interim National Constitution states that the right to vote and \ or stand for election, according to the 2008-9 electoral laws is conditional on being resident prior to the date of the general elections, for 3 months in the constituency he or she has been living in during the fifth population consensus. We the Sudanese in the Diaspora have appealed to the Sudanese Government, some 18 months ago, to reconsider the election law with a view to allowing us to partake the forthcoming election in the geographic constituencies and not in the presidential elections alone. That, and according to UN suggestion to both the consensus Council and its committees, the Sudan has been designated a presidential democracy. That in itself gives the president sweeping powers that invite wide scope for rendering redundant the political parties which have hitherto been under various forms of censorship and\ or ban. We have therefore demanded: 1-the right to vote in the geographic constituencies 2- and \or similar constituencies to the historic graduate constituencies be created for those millions of Sudanese men and women. Our remittances that exceed hundreds of millions of dollars: -contribute to the Gross National Product -help keep alive millions of families back in the Sudan -not to speak of our intellectual and other contributions. As the Interim National Constitution states that it is the duty of every Sudanese to participate in elections and referenda, we have continued to seek to realise our duty which is also a human right-by all means open to us. I personally do not have a problem with the right to vote but there are, as it were, a very few of us. It is on behalf of those hundreds of thousands that I am writing to you about. Looking forward to hearing from you, than you for your time and kind attention Yours sincerely Khadiga Safwat (DR.) 3rd.Decemebre, 2009