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هذه الايام وحتي اعلان نتائج الانتخابات ستكون هنالك تحليلات وتقارير كثيرة عن الانتخابات السودانية سلبا وايجابا فهنالك حوالي 100 من المراسليين لوكالات الانباء والفضائيات والمنظمات تتابع من الداخل وغيرهم .. وهنا وللتوثيق ساحاول نقل ما يكتب ويتواجد اسفيريا وامل ان يشارك من يقدر علي النقل ودون نقاش انتظارا لمحصلة النتائج وما يلي ذلك :
Quote: Fraud warnings intensify on eve of Sudan elections Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:21pm GMT By Missy Ryan
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Activists warned on Saturday on the eve of Sudan's historic elections of widespread misdeeds threatening to mar a vote that had been hoped would give Sudan new democratic legitimacy and help end decades of conflict.
"Violations of human rights - particularly restrictions on freedom of assembly and freedom of the press - are threatening prospects for a free, fair and credible vote across Sudan," said Georgette Gagnon, Africa Director of Human Rights Watch.
"Sudanese authorities are clearly failing to uphold international standards," said Gagnon, one of a broad group of international activists who warned of renewed violence.
Much is at stake in the country's first multi-party vote in a quarter-century, as Sudan struggles to find stability after decades of internal violence, combats deep poverty and seeks to re-establish itself as a credible player on the world stage.
Yet the three-day polls are widely expected to cement the power of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who in 2009, 20 years after taking power in a coup, became the first sitting world leader to be indicted by the International Criminal Court, for allegedly plotting war crimes in Sudan's western Darfur region.
Bashir has promised the elections, which begin on Sunday, will be "free and fair." His party officials criticise the opposition, much of which has pulled out of the poll, saying it is trying to cover up its inability to win votes.
He had hoped credible elections, in which voters will select a new president, a leader of the largely autonomous southern region, parliaments, and leaders of 25 states, would enhance his world standing as he defies the ICC ruling.
LAST-MINUTE WITHDRAWAL
That looks less likely after leading parties' last-minute withdrawal, including the powerful Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), over allegations that Bashir has manipulated voter rolls and packing the electoral commission with loyalists.
"These elections were born not as something that could strengthen democracy," Yasir Arman, the SPLM candidate who had been Bashir's chief rival, said at a news conference on Friday in which he and other boycotting politicians levelled a long list of fraud charges against Bashir's government.
"We can say that these elections will be still-born," he said.
As the elections draw near, such analysis is becoming more widespread. On Friday, the Obama administration said conditions in Sudan, including U.N. reports of restrictions on free speech and association, harassment of the press and limits on access to polling stations, particularly in Darfur, were "disturbing."
Contradicting comments by its Sudan envoy in Khartoum, it said it would consider supporting a brief delay to the elections -- even though Sudanese election officials have repeatedly said this is out of the question.
The European Union has pulled its observers out of Darfur, where the United Nations estimates 300,000 people have died since 2003 in a humanitarian crisis that has been labelled genocide by Washington. Arman called on the Carter Centre, which has sent observers across the country, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, to do the same.
Carter, after meeting with Bashir in Khartoum, said he hoped that "the decisions of individual voters will be expressed freely without intimidation as the cast their ballot, and that the results will be tabulated honestly and fairly."
Opposition politicians have joined external activists in warning that human rights violations could worsen if the elections begin as planned on April 11.
"If elections are to take place in such compromised environment, conflicts about the legitimacy of the results might spark violence," the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies said in a statement.
Polarization ahead of the polls may bode poorly for longevity of the 2005 peace deal that ended a Sudan's long north-south civil war. A key part of the deal is a referendum, planned for January 2011, which would give voters in south Sudan the chance to decide if they desire independence.
If the referendum is delayed, the south could secede anyway and risk destabilizing the rest of east Africa.
The United Nations, which is advising local elections officials, said a credible vote was "of paramount importance."
"The elections should contribute to the opening of political space in Sudan ahead of the January 2011 referenda," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement.
(Editing by Giles Elgood)
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Quote: Sudan gears up for election day By Jailan Zayan (AFP) – 8 hours ago
KHARTOUM — Sudan geared up on Saturday for its first multi-party elections in 24 years, with a 16-million-strong electorate eligible to vote for president, members of parliament and local representatives.
President Omar al-Beshir, who staged a marathon well-organised campaign that took him to all corners of the country, is set later in the day to meet former US president Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Centre is monitoring the elections.
Carter said on Friday that he expected polling to proceed without major hurdles, although some delays could be expected in more remote areas.
Related article: Low tech to the fore in Sudan election campaigning
"We see no reasons for any concern except on a few isolated stations way out," said the former US leader.
Voting materials "may get there a bit late, but they will have three days at least in which to vote," he told reporters in the capital.
In the run-up to the elections, opposition parties accused Beshir's ruling National Congress Party of fraud.
A Slovenian company was to have printed the presidential ballot papers, but the national election commission gave the contract instead to a state-owned printer, causing fury among the opposition who said this would allow ballot stuffing.
Security forces deployed in strength ahead of the country's first multi-party election since 1986, as did international peacekeepers in both the war-torn western region of Darfur and in the south.
More than 100,000 police officers will be on duty over the election period, a security official said, as embassies in Khartoum advised their nationals to adopt "precautionary measures" such as stocking up on food and fuel.
Related article: Sudan female candidate tells women 'yes they can'
The credibility of the April 11-13 elections has been dented by a growing opposition boycott.
Former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, who won Sudan's last multi-party elections, has pulled out of the presidential race.
The southern former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) said it was withdrawing not only from the presidential vote but also from parliamentary and local elections in all northern areas except disputed districts of Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
The SPLM presidential candidate, Yasser Arman, who had been considered Beshir's main challenger, has characterised the vote as nothing more than a one-man show for Beshir.
His withdrawal, and that of ex-premier Mahdi, have cleared the way for Beshir who looks sure to be re-elected.
Related article: Carter hopes vote will meet 'international standards'
Southern Sudanese will also vote for the president of the semi-autonomous south.
The SPLM is still campaigning strongly to head the regional government that will rule the impoverished south until a promised referendum next year on independence.
Beshir acknowledged on Friday that 30 percent of southerners want to break away but he said 30 percent wanted to remain part of Sudan.
In a television interview with the private Al-Shorooq channel, he vowed that he would do all he could to win over the 40 percent he said were undecided.
The veteran president, who seized power in 1989 after a coup overthrew the last elected government, has been keen to use this weekend's ballot to reassert his authority after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. |
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جميع الحقوق محفوظة لجريدة الدستور
http://dostor.org/politics/middle-east/10/april/9/12558 غدا.. انطلاق أول انتخابات رئاسية في السودان منذ 24 عاما | الدستورالبشير يختتم حملته الانتخابية.. وسلفاكير ينفي الانسحاب من الانتخابات في شمال السودان
تبدأ غدا أول انتخابات رئاسية في السودان منذ 24 عاماً وسط غياب منافسة حقيقية بعدما خلت الساحة أمام الرئيس السوداني عمر حسن البشير الذي اختتم حملته الانتخابية أمس مبديا ثقته باكتساح الانتخابات الرئاسية من الجولة الأولي، فيما نفي نائبه الأول رئيس حكومة الجنوب ورئيس الحركة الشعبية «سلفاكير ميارديت» انسحاب حركته من الانتخابات في الولايات الشمالية
وأعلن البشير في كلمة له أمام آلاف من مؤيديه بمدينة «دلقو» أقصي شمال السودان أمس اختتام حملته الانتخابية مؤكدا «الفوز» بالانتخابات.
وفي جنوب البلاد اختتم ميارديت حملته الانتخابية لرئاسة حكومة الجنوب بلقاء شعبي حاشد بمدينة «بانتيو» أكد فيه أن الحركة مستمرة في الانتخابات في الشمال علي كل المستويات باستثناء رئاسة الجمهورية والانتخابات في ولايات دارفور.
من جانبها أكدت مفوضية الانتخابات السودانية اليوم أن عملية الاقتراع في الانتخابات ستنطلق غدا ـ الأحد ـ في جميع أنحاء السودان وأن جميع الترتيبات الفنية قد اكتملت ووصلت جميع مستلزمات العملية الانتخابية لمراكز الاقتراع.
وتعد الانتخابات المرتقبة أول انتخابات تعددية في السودان منذ 24 عاما حيث يتنافس تسعة مرشحين علي الرئاسة أوفرهم حظا الرئيس الحالي البشير، ومرشحان لرئاسة حكومة جنوب السودان هما ميارديت، ووزير الخارجية الأسبق لام أكول الذي انشق عن الحركة الشعبية وشكل حزبا جديدا باسم الحركة الشعبية-التغيير الديمقراطي. ويتنافس في الانتخابات نحو 14 ألف مرشح آخرين علي مستويات حكام الولايات ونواب البرلمانات القومية والإقليمية والولائية والمحلية.
ولكن عددا من أحزاب المعارضة الرئيسية قرر مقاطعة الانتخابات، وخصوصا حزب الأمة بزعامة الصادق المهدي الذي حذر من تزوير الانتخابات. كما سحبت الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان (متمردون سابقون) مرشحها للرئاسة السودانية وانسحبت من الانتخابات في شمال البلاد، علي أن تقتصر مشاركتها علي الولايات الجنوبية العشر وولايتين محاذيتين لها هما النيل الأزرق وجنوب كردفان.
وينتخب سكان جنوب السودان بالإضافة إلي ذلك رئيس حكومة جنوب السودان المتمتع بحكم شبه ذاتي، استعدادا للاستفتاء المقرر تنظيمه في مطلع 2011 بشأن الاستقلال. وينظم رئيس حكومة جنوب السودان الحالي سلفا كير الجمعة مهرجانا في جوبا، عاصمة الجنوب.
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اكتمال الاستعدادات لاول انتخابات في السودان منذ اكثر من عقدين من الزمن
تقرير خاص قناة المنار – حسن حمزة /
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تنطلقُ صباح يوم الاحد الانتخاباتُ السودانية التي تمتد ثلاثة ايام، حيث يتوجه ستةَ عشرَ مليونَ ناخبٍ سودانيٍ الى مراكز الاقتراع لاختيار رئيس بلادهم والبرلمان الوطني ومجالس الولايات. وستجري الانتخاباتُ وسَطَ اجراءاتٍ امنيةً مشددةٍ يشارك فيها مئةُ الفِ شرطي. وقد انتهت الحملات الإعلامية للانتخابات السودانية حيث اكد الرئيس عمر البشير في ختام حملته حرصه على حفظ السودان وتحقيق الانماء المتوازن. الى ذلك، قلل الرئيس الأميركي الأسبق جيمي كارتر الذي يرأس هيئة دولية للإشراف على الانتخابات من أهمية التصريحات الأميركية التي تحدثت عن مؤشرات مقلقة في السودان، مؤكدا ان الانتخابات تشكل تحديا كبيرا للسودانيين. فساعات قليلة تفصل السودانيين عن اول انتخابات تشهدها البلاد منذ ما يزيد عن عقدين من الزمن. اكتملت التحضيرات اللوجستية واكدت المفوضية القومية للانتخابات انهاء الاستعداد في مجمل انحاء البلاد ليتمكن نحو ستة عشر مليون ناخب من الادلاء باصواتهم خلال ايام الانتخاب لاختيار الرئيس والبرلمان الوطني ومجالس الولايات. بعثة الاتحاد الاوروبي لمراقبة الانتخابات نشرت مئة وثلاثين مراقبا في جميع أنحاء السودان في حين وصل الرئيس الاميركي الاسبق جيمي كارتر الى الخرطوم حيث يترأس لجنة دولية لمراقبة الانتخابات, وزار المفوضيةَ القومية للانتخابات ليؤكد على ان الاقتراع يشكل تحديا كبيرا للسودانيين. وقال الرئيس الاميركي السابق جيمي كارتر: الرئيس: "تشكل الانتخابات تحدياً كبيراً لان السودان لم يشهد انتخابات منذ عام 1986 اي ما بقرب من خمسة وعشرين عاما. وتشكل تحديا للمدن التى تشهد الانتخابات للمرة الاولى وانا اعتقد ان مفوضية الانتخابات قامت بما يجب في هذا الخصوص". وانهت الاحزاب السودانية والمرشحون للرئاسة حملاتهم الانتخابية وفي مقدمتهم الرئيس عمر البشير الذي يسعى حزبُه للحفاظ على الغالبية في المجلس الوطني. وفي كلمة له في ختام حملته من ام درمان اكد البشير ان السودان امانة في عنقه وانه سيحفظ هذه الامانة. اما الشارع السوداني فيرى في الانتخابات فرصة لتحقيق الاستقرار السياسي ولممارسة حقه الديمقراطي في اختيار من يره مناسبا لقيادة السودان واعادة الامن والامان خاصة الى دارفور التى تعاني وضعا اجتماعيا واقتصاديا صعبا واهلها ما زالوا في العراء جراء الحروب. وينتخب سكان الجنوب بالاضافة الى الرئيس واعضاء البرلمان, رئيسَ حكومة جنوب السودان المتمتع بحكم شبه ذاتي ومجلسهم التشريعي على الرغم من تأكيد رئيس الجنوب سالفا كير ان عيون الجنوبيين شاخصةٌ نحو الاستفتاء المرتقب مطلع عام 2011 والذي سيقرر مصير الجنوبيين ما بين الوحدة او الانفصال.
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اكتمال الاستعدادات لاول انتخابات في السودان منذ اكثر من عقدين من الزمن
تقرير خاص قناة المنار – حسن حمزة /
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تنطلقُ صباح يوم الاحد الانتخاباتُ السودانية التي تمتد ثلاثة ايام، حيث يتوجه ستةَ عشرَ مليونَ ناخبٍ سودانيٍ الى مراكز الاقتراع لاختيار رئيس بلادهم والبرلمان الوطني ومجالس الولايات. وستجري الانتخاباتُ وسَطَ اجراءاتٍ امنيةً مشددةٍ يشارك فيها مئةُ الفِ شرطي. وقد انتهت الحملات الإعلامية للانتخابات السودانية حيث اكد الرئيس عمر البشير في ختام حملته حرصه على حفظ السودان وتحقيق الانماء المتوازن. الى ذلك، قلل الرئيس الأميركي الأسبق جيمي كارتر الذي يرأس هيئة دولية للإشراف على الانتخابات من أهمية التصريحات الأميركية التي تحدثت عن مؤشرات مقلقة في السودان، مؤكدا ان الانتخابات تشكل تحديا كبيرا للسودانيين. فساعات قليلة تفصل السودانيين عن اول انتخابات تشهدها البلاد منذ ما يزيد عن عقدين من الزمن. اكتملت التحضيرات اللوجستية واكدت المفوضية القومية للانتخابات انهاء الاستعداد في مجمل انحاء البلاد ليتمكن نحو ستة عشر مليون ناخب من الادلاء باصواتهم خلال ايام الانتخاب لاختيار الرئيس والبرلمان الوطني ومجالس الولايات. بعثة الاتحاد الاوروبي لمراقبة الانتخابات نشرت مئة وثلاثين مراقبا في جميع أنحاء السودان في حين وصل الرئيس الاميركي الاسبق جيمي كارتر الى الخرطوم حيث يترأس لجنة دولية لمراقبة الانتخابات, وزار المفوضيةَ القومية للانتخابات ليؤكد على ان الاقتراع يشكل تحديا كبيرا للسودانيين. وقال الرئيس الاميركي السابق جيمي كارتر: الرئيس: "تشكل الانتخابات تحدياً كبيراً لان السودان لم يشهد انتخابات منذ عام 1986 اي ما بقرب من خمسة وعشرين عاما. وتشكل تحديا للمدن التى تشهد الانتخابات للمرة الاولى وانا اعتقد ان مفوضية الانتخابات قامت بما يجب في هذا الخصوص". وانهت الاحزاب السودانية والمرشحون للرئاسة حملاتهم الانتخابية وفي مقدمتهم الرئيس عمر البشير الذي يسعى حزبُه للحفاظ على الغالبية في المجلس الوطني. وفي كلمة له في ختام حملته من ام درمان اكد البشير ان السودان امانة في عنقه وانه سيحفظ هذه الامانة. اما الشارع السوداني فيرى في الانتخابات فرصة لتحقيق الاستقرار السياسي ولممارسة حقه الديمقراطي في اختيار من يره مناسبا لقيادة السودان واعادة الامن والامان خاصة الى دارفور التى تعاني وضعا اجتماعيا واقتصاديا صعبا واهلها ما زالوا في العراء جراء الحروب. وينتخب سكان الجنوب بالاضافة الى الرئيس واعضاء البرلمان, رئيسَ حكومة جنوب السودان المتمتع بحكم شبه ذاتي ومجلسهم التشريعي على الرغم من تأكيد رئيس الجنوب سالفا كير ان عيون الجنوبيين شاخصةٌ نحو الاستفتاء المرتقب مطلع عام 2011 والذي سيقرر مصير الجنوبيين ما بين الوحدة او الانفصال.
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المجموعة اللبنانية للإعلام - قناة المنار
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Breaking News / World http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20...election-campaigning Low tech to the fore in south Sudan election campaigning
Agence France-Presse Posted date: April 10, 2010
JUBA--There were no televised debates, much less Twittering or blogging, as candidates sought to get their messages across to the people of south Sudan in an election campaign that wrapped up on Friday. Instead, it was mostly the transistor radio for the inhabitants of the dirt-poor semi-autonomous region, where most people are illiterate and few are wealthy enough or lucky enough even to have electricity for a television.
Africa's largest country, Sudan goes to the polls on Sunday for the first multi-party elections since 1986.
And for the nine million people of the south, which fought a 21-year civil war with the north, this is also the first election since a peace deal ended the conflict in 2005.
"In south Sudan, 80 percent of the population is illiterate," says Paola Moggi, 48, who works for Sudan Catholic Radio Network (SCRN), a group of seven local radio stations.
Anyway, newspapers are printed in the Sudanese capital Khartoum more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) away, and "you don't have roads to distribute the newspapers daily," she adds.
People in the south use radio as a primary source of information, Moggi says.
"They search for programs to educate themselves, like how to prevent diseases, learning English, how to cultivate the land.
"But of course they are interested in news and politics. They want information on the candidates, the parties... Our main program for the election was 'Know your country, choose your leaders'."
Had there been any problems during the campaign?
"Absolutely not. We can feel a transition in the mentalities, from war to democracy."
In the "north, there is no option to speak politics" on private radio stations, Moggi believes.
But Albion Tokwaro Fabian, 63, general manager of Liberty FM radio, has a different story.
At the beginning of the campaign, he said, "there was no problem, and there was good cooperation with the authorities.
"But one day we hosted an independent candidate, and the following morning public security came to the radio and took me to the office. They closed the radio during two hours. They explained to me that the content of the program was very provocative. They said it was a warning."
Even with radio, there are practical and logistical problems.
Canadian Jean-Claude Labrecque, 62, editor-in-chief of the UN radio service Radio Miraya, says "we broadcast primarily in Arabic and English," while most people speak local languages and dialects.
"We have short programs in various local languages," and there will be more such broadcasts after the election, Labrecque says.
Moggi points to the shortage of electricity that affects the ability to put out radio programming.
"We need generators to broadcast eight to 12 hours a day," she says, adding that the seven small community stations SCRN has "can only broadcast approximately 100 kilometers around towns."
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VOA News 10 April 2010
Sudan Readying for Landmark Election Sunday VOA News10 April 2010
Sudan is gearing up for its first multi-party elections in almost a quarter century on Sunday, amid growing concern from observers over whether the government can deliver a credible poll.
Political party members ended their campaigning on Friday ahead of the presidential, parliamentary and regional polls, which will take three days to complete.
President Omar al-Bashir is widely expected to win re-election. Two of his main challengers, ousted former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and Yasir Arman from the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement, pulled out of the race this week. Several opposition parties plan to fully or partially boycott the elections.
Opposition parties accuse Mr. Bashir and his ruling National Congress Party of preparing to rig the results.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and observers from the Carter Center are in Sudan to monitor the elections, despite the European Union and other monitoring agencies pulling out.
Parliamentarians from around the world have called on Sudan to postpone elections, saying in a public letter that the "building blocks for a free and fair election" are not in place. Khartoum has refused to delay the poll.
The election follows a 2005 peace accord that ended a 21-year civil war between Sudan's northern and southern regions.
It is a prelude to a referendum scheduled to be held in January on whether the semi-autonomous south will become completely independent.
President Bashir has been in power since a 1989 coup. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes committed in the western region of Darfur.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
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Bashir: The only choice left in Sudan elections In the Sudan elections that should have offered a choice between unity or southern secession, political Islam or secular governance, only President Omar Al-Bashir's party is running. Twelve parties are boycotting the vote.
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By Scott Baldauf, Staff writer posted April 9, 2010 at 3:25 pm EDT
Kadugli, Sudan — This small city of tree-lined streets is so quiet that you wouldn’t even know that the town is about to take part in the first free Sudan election in 24 years.
Just a year ago, Kadugli – nestled in the Nuba Mountains and not far both Darfur and South Sudan – was a no-go zone. Bandits carried out carjackings at will, gunfire could be heard in the town center at night, and radical Islamist militants in the neighboring region of Darfur suggested that they might be willing to expand their struggle against the Sudanese government and include Kadugli in their operations.
But even though tighter security and recently paved roads have improved people's lives, voters will have little to choose from in these elections, which begin April 11.
In an election that should have given Sudanese clear choices for their future – a choice between unity, or separation between the north and south; a choice between political Islam or secular governance – there will only be one party running, the party of President Omar Al-Bashir.
The Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement, declared a boycott last week, claiming that the elections would be rigged, that its candidates were harassed, that the security situation in the Darfur region was so bad that most Darfuris would not be able to cast their votes.
Eleven other parties have since joined the boycott, giving Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir a clear advantage as front runner in a one-man race. In the South, the SPLM continues its election campaign, cementing its control over territory it controlled during its 20-year civil war against the north.
Somewhere, a fat lady is singing.
“There are no choices in this election; the two parties are all going in one direction, toward power,” says Ahmed Sabiel, a political and risk analyst in Khartoum. “There is no clear strategy of how to keep the country together, or how to rule the country. There is no clear policy, and there is no clear objective. All the parties are just focusing on power.”
Two main powers pull apart On paper, these elections should offer Sudanese voters a choice between two vastly different views of government. The ruling National Congress Party (NCP) of President Bashir has its roots in political Islam, and offers unity under a system that draws inspiration for governance, economics, personal ethics, and criminal justice from the teachings of the Koran.
The SPLM, while it draws most of its support from the Christian dominated south, offers a more secular vision of government, with no state religion and with a secular constitution governing all Sudanese fairly.
But in the past five years of a powersharing agreement and a Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the NCP and the SPLM have left both parties distrustful of each other, and visibly pining for a separation.
Salva Kiir, the SPLM leader and Sudan’s current vice president, declined to run against Mr. Bashir in these elections, choosing instead to lead the SPLM in the South, has signaled his preference for secession in the upcoming referendum planned for 2011. And Mr. Bashir – who faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) because of his role in directing the war in the Darfur region, which killed 300,000 – has publicly stated that he would accept secession.
Bashir's party: Boycott an excuse For Bashir’s party, the boycott is just an excuse for the SPLM and other opposition parties to avoid defeat.
“They feel they are not in a position to compete,” says Rabbie Abdelatti, the deputy minister for communications, and a senior member of Bashir’s NCP. “We are committed, and we will be very pleased whether the elections are positive or negative to us. We will accept the result of the referendum [to be held in 2011] whether it is unity with the South and North, or it is secession. We are fulfilling our agreement, not playing games.”
SPLM hard-liners like Pagan Amom, say that the NCP has done little to honor its signed commitments from the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which officially ended the north-south conflict in 2005.
“The NCP for the last five years have obstructed every action of the CPA,” Mr. Amom says in a phone interview. “The boundaries between the North and South have not been demarcated. The referendum rules have not been established. The boundaries of the [disputed area of] Abyei has not been demarcated, and even the wealth sharing reports [on oil revenues] are not credible.”
“There is not a little ground for trust here,” Amom says.
First election in a generation Elections in developing countries are never easy, and especially so in a country like Sudan, where military coups are common, where the state controls all broadcast media, and where a generation has grown up without experiencing an election.
The Carter Center, an international election observer group led by former president Jimmy Carter, issued a report requesting a slight delay in elections to allow logistical problems like incomplete voter registration lists to be resolved. President Bashir hotly responded by threatening to throw out all foreign observer missions.
In Kadugli, the last major campaign rally was a month ago, when President Bashir came to speak at a rally well-attended by supporters. But since then, campaigning has largely stopped.
The SPLM here, as elsewhere, has boycotted the presidential elections. Parliamentary elections have been postponed for two months, in an agreement with the NCP and election officials. Campaign posters are few, although there is one attempt to win over southern non-Arab voters who make up the majority here. In one, Bashir is holding a spear, and wearing a flamboyant black feather tribal headdress and an even bigger grin.
“There has been total neglect of the Nubian communities,” says an international aid worker based in Kadugli, speaking on condition of anonymity. “There has been no integration of the armed groups, such as the SPLA [the armed wing of the SPLM]. So when the South votes to secede, many people here will want to separate, too. I’m afraid it may become another Darfur.”
'We do not have to lose hope' In Khartoum, the capital, many young voters seem stunned that their first chance to vote may be meaningless.
Iman Al-Jack, a young teacher of Arabic language to foreign expatriates, says she was depressed to hear that the opposition parties were boycotting the elections, and she doesn’t know how she’ll vote.
“Before, I thought there might be a change, because there were some players who have some weight, but now that the biggest candidate is boycotting the election, it’s not going to change things,” she says. “This will just make the regime legitimate, which came to power through a coup.”
Yet while she admits that both of the main parties now seem bent on breaking up Sudan into two countries, she refuses to give up hope. “Youths are trying to say we want unity. The people who want separation have reasonable motives for their opinions, but we can still speak for unity. The politicians didn’t do enough to make unity in society. But it’s not too late. We do not have to lose hope.”
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From The Times April 10, 2010
Shambolic election in Sudan will bring no relief to starving and brutalised country
Tristan McConnell Mvolo, Sudan Mandelina Nyi-bo folds her long limbs around the youngest of her six children, a nine-month-old girl, and talks about the day that her husband was killed.
“They came with guns to attack our village. They shot people randomly and killed many. My husband was among them,” she said.
After the survivors fled, the raiders — from a neighbouring cattle-herding community — destroyed their houses and grain stores.
Now Mrs Nyi-bo lives in a grass hut in a clearing in a forest that hides her and 7,000 others forced from their homes in recent months.
One of Africa’s longest and bloodiest civil wars ended five years ago and Sudan’s transition to peace and democracy was supposed to be capped by three days of national elections starting tomorrow. But what is happening here looks little like either peace or democracy.
In the western region of Darfur the fighting that sputters on caused EU election observers to pull out this week, citing security fears. The withdrawal means that a free vote is impossible.
In the crushingly poor south, the kinds of clashes that killed Mrs Nyi-bo’s husband have slaughtered at least 2,000 in the past year, more than in Darfur during the same period.
In the north, analysts, activists and opposition politicians allege that President al-Bashir, 66, has rigged, intimidated and gerrymandered his way to a sure-fire victory.
The shambolic final days before the first multi-party election in 24 years have laid bare the unfixable divisions in Africa’s largest country.
The deepest fissure is between north and south, which fought a decades-long civil war in which 1.5 million died. The comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 gave the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) a kind of autonomy over the south, where Christian and traditional beliefs prevail. Its leader Salva Kiir is president of southern Sudan and Deputy President of all of Sudan.
Citing vote-rigging and the continued fighting in Darfur, the southern rebel army-turned-government boycotted the national presidential poll, withdrawing Mr al-Bashir’s most credible opponent. It will now contest parliamentary and governorship seats only in its southern heartland and two disputed oil-rich states in the centre of the country.
Other opposition groups in the north have followed suit, including the Umma party, led by Sadiq al-Mahdi, the former Prime Minister, who won the last election in 1986 and was ousted three years later in Mr al-Bashir’s Islamist coup. The boycotts mean that Mr al-Bashir’s National Congress Party (NCP) will almost certainly win, but it will be a hollow victory.
Mr al-Bashir had hoped that a resounding win in a credible election would rehabilitate his reputation, legitimise his rule and defy world justice after the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted him last year for alleged war crimes committed in Darfur. But victory in a discredited election does none of these things. “Bashir is not going to get the legitimacy he craves out of this election,” said Leben Nelson Moro, a professor at the Centre for Peace and Development Studies at Juba University in the south.
Despite criticism from international election observers and human rights activists, the Sudanese President remained defiant. “The elections will be free and fair and clean and exemplary,” he told supporters at his final campaign rally in the north. “Elections are a religious duty.”
Weeks earlier he had threatened to “cut off the fingers” of international election observers who had raised doubts over the fairness of the coming poll.
Mr al-Bashir may be likely to win, but few in the south care. Outside Juba, the southern capital, this dirt-poor region seems frozen in time, its people facing other problems and other concerns.
In the place that Mrs Nyi-bo now calls home there is no food except a bitter wild root that is poisonous until it has been soaked for days. There is no water because the nearest borehole has run dry, no electricity, no school, no hospital, no road. Children run about barefoot and naked.
The only treatment for common diseases such as malaria, river blindness, diarrhoea or a mysterious local ailment known as “nodding disease” is dispensed from a plastic tent funded by Save the Children. The only “doctor” is Peter Akol, 31, a community health worker who fled here last month with his wife and two children when his ethnic Jur farming community was attacked by cattle herders seeking grazing land.
A horrifying condensation of the problems facing southern Sudan is what international aid agencies call the “scary statistics”: one in seven pregnant women dies in childbirth, 4.3 million people need emergency food handouts to keep starvation at bay, fewer than 2 per cent of children complete primary school, 85 per cent of adults can neither read nor write, 90 per cent live on less than $1 a day. Guns are common and violence between communities fighting for scarce resources is increasing.
Poverty, violence and hardship partly explain the muted response to what will be for many the first time they have voted. Kennet Korayi, a Sudanese civil society activist, has another explanation for the lack of interest. “It is a distraction from what people in the south really want: independence.”
A referendum on secession is due next January and if, as expected, southerners vote for independence, the south will become Africa’s newest country. Until then nothing else matters, not even the election of their enemy Mr al-Bashir as President.
“We need to get the south first then we can get development, governance, proper elections,” said Mr Moro. “We are poor, we have not got the peace dividends, the Government has not delivered but — no problem — we will wait for self-determination. This, now, is the closest we have ever come to having our freedom.”
Copyright 2010 Times Newspapers Ltd.
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Quote: صحيفة الوطن السعودية الأحد 26 ربيع الآخر 1431ـ 11 أبريل 2010 العدد 3481 ـ السنة العاشرة
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- توقع فوز سهل للبشير بالرئاسة الخرطوم: فايز السليك يتنافس اليوم في الانتخابات السودانية 8 مرشحين للرئاسة و2 لحكومة جنوب السودان وقرابة 14 ألفا على مناصب ولائية وتشريعية في كل البلاد. وفيما يتقدم الرئيس عمر البشير المرشحين يتوقع المراقبون فوزاً سهلاً له، بعد انسحاب أقوى المتنافسين من السباق، وهم ياسر عرمان مرشح الحركة الشعبية، ومبارك الفاضل مرشح حزب الأمة للإصلاح والتجديد، والصادق المهدي مرشح حزب الأمة القومي رئيس الوزراء السابق.
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يتنافس اليوم في الانتخابات السودانية 8 مرشحين للرئاسة و2 لحكومة جنوب السودان وقرابة 14 ألفا على مناصب ولائية وتشريعية في كل البلاد. وفيما يتقدم الرئيس عمر البشير المرشحين تضم قائمة الرئاسة امرأة واحدة، واثنين من العسكريين، ومثلهما من المستقلين، و4 حزبيين بينهم سائق سابق بريطاني الجنسية، في وقت بدأ فيه سكان العاصمة عمليات شراء واسعة للمواد الغذائية، وعمليات تعبئة لأنابيب الغاز تحوطاً لأي طارئ يمنعهم من الخروج أثناء فترة الاقتراع التي تستمر لمدة ثلاثة أيام، إلى جانب عمليات تنقل وترحال لمناطق داخل المدينة يعتقدون أنها الأكثر أمنا وحماية من أماكن استقرارهم. ويتوجه حوالى 16 مليون ناخب إلى صناديق الاقتراع للإدلاء بأصواتهم في اختيار رئيس من بين 8 متنافسين و2 لحكومة الجنوب، هما سلفاكير ميارديت ولام أكول، إضافة إلى 25 من الولاة و450 للمجلس الوطني والتشريعية الولائية، من بين 14 ألف مرشح. وتجرى العملية الانتخابية المعقدة وسط إجراءات أمنية كثيفة وانتشار واسع للشرطة، وهي المرة الأولى التي تجرى فيها انتخابات في السودان على 8 مستويات، وفي ذات الوقت لاختيار الرئيس والولاة بطريقة مباشرة من الناخبين، بعد أن كان الاختيار للرئاسة يتم عن طريق الاختيار عبر البرلمان بواسطة أغلبية النواب، أو عن طريق انقلاب عسكري تقوم به قوة سياسية مثلما حصل 3 مرات في عام 1958 بواسطة الفريق عبود، و1969 بواسطة المشير (العقيد وقتها) جعفر نميري، و1989 بواسطة المشير عمر البشير (العميد آنذاك). ويتوقع المراقبون فوزاً سهلاً لمرشح المؤتمر الوطني عمر البشير، بعد انسحاب أقوى المتنافسين من السباق، وهم ياسر عرمان مرشح الحركة الشعبية، ومبارك الفاضل مرشح حزب الأمة للإصلاح والتجديد، والصادق المهدي مرشح حزب الأمة القومي ورئيس الوزراء السابق، إضافة إلى مرشح الحزب الشيوعي محمد إبراهيم نقد. والبشير هو عسكري إسلامي وصل إلى السلطة عبر انقلاب تم في يونيو 1989 خطط له غريمه الحالي ورئيس حزب المؤتمر الشعبي المعارض حسن الترابي. والبشير من مواليد 1944 بقرية "حوش بانقا" في شمال السودان، والتحق بالكلية العسكرية السودانية سنة 1960، ثم نال ماجستير العلوم العسكرية بكلية القادة والأركان عام 1981، وزمالة أكاديمية السودان للعلوم الإدارية عام 1987، كما شارك البشير في دورة تدريبية للمظليين في كلية ناصر العسكرية بمصر، ثم انضم إلى صفوف القوات المصرية التي واجهت الجيش الإسرائيلي في حرب أكتوبر عام 1973. وواجه البشر خلال تقلده للرئاسة السودانية مطبات كثيرة، ومن ضمنها أطول الحروب الإفريقية في جنوب البلاد، والتي انتهت باتفاق سلام أبرم عام 2005، مع الحركة الشعبية. إضافة إلى الحرب في الشرق ودارفور لأول مرة في تاريخ السودان، كما واجه البشير الحصار الدولي والإقليمي، وضم السودان إلى قائمة الإرهاب الدولي، وكان آخر المطبات مواجهة اتهامات من قل محكمة الجنايات الدولية في تهم حرب ارتكبت في إقليم دارفور. ويرى البشير أن المحكمة الجناية زادت شعبيته الداخلية فيما يواجه البشير كلا من العميد عبد العزيز خالد عثمان الذي انضم إلى المعارضة المسلحة، ثم كون تنظيم قوات التحالف السودانية في إريتريا بعد انقلاب البشير. ومن المنافسين الآخرين حاتم السر علي، مرشح الحزب الاتحادي الديموقراطي الذي انضم إلى المعارضة وصار المتحدث الرسمي باسم "التجمع الوطني الديموقراطي"، وهناك امرأة واحدة وهي الدكتورة فاطمة عبد المحمود وكانت أول امرأة تشغل منصب وزيرة وذلك في السبعينات في عهد الرئيس الأسبق جعفر نميري. وينافس أيضا على الرئاسة عبد الله دينق نيال من التيار الإسلامي في جناحه الثاني بزعامة الترابي، أما المرشح كامل إدريس فهو أكاديمي كان أمين الملكية الفكرية العالمية، ويخوض ذات السباق مرشح الحزب القومي السوداني الجديد منير شيخ الدين، وهو يحمل الجنسية البريطانية، وكان يعمل سائقا لسيارة في ثمانينات القرن الماضي، وهو لا حظ له شأنه في ذلك شأن المرشح المستقل محمود جحا.
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Sudan starts historic vote amid confusion, delays http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=2789373&sponsor= By Opheera McDoom and Skye Wheeler, ReutersApril 11, 2010 6:33 AM
ReutersKHARTOUM/JUBA, April 11 (Reuters) - Confusion, delays and allegations of fraud marked the start of Sudan’s first multi-party elections in a quarter-century, a vote that will test the fragile unity of Africa’s biggest country.
The three-day election will be a key indicator of whether Sudan can fend off renewed conflict and humanitarian crisis as it ######### toward a 2011 referendum that could bring independence for the oil-producing south.
The results are widely expected to keep Sudan’s two most influential men in power: President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for allegedly planning war crimes in the western Darfur region, and Silva Kiir, who leads largely autonomous south Sudan.
In the capital Khartoum and across the country, there were long queues and chaotic scenes outside polling centres. Kiir was forced to wait 20 minutes under a tree for his voting station to open in the southern capital Juba and then spoiled his first ballot by putting it in the wrong box.
Would-be voters lined up in the morning in Khartoum, where police were out in force on unusually quiet streets. Many voters were hindered by delays in getting ballots to polling places, ballot mix-ups and names missing from voters’ lists.
But by Sunday afternoon, no major unrest was reported as people voted to choose a national president, a leader of south Sudan, national and local parliaments, and governors of all but one of the country’s 25 states.
Yet the elections’ credibility took a blow even before voting started, as leading opposition parties pulled out candidates and blamed the government for widespread vote-rigging and intimidation. Election officials, trying to plan a complex election for the first time in a generation, denied the charges.
"It’s not going to be a perfect election. There are no such things," former U.S. President Jimmy Carter told reporters as he joined observers from his Carter Center in Khartoum.
"But if we feel that in the elections the will of the voters has been expressed adequately then that would be the primary judgment we will make."
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In Khartoum, voters stood or sat in the searing heat for more than three hours, many of them voting for the first time in a complex polling process. In northern Sudan, electors got eight voting forms; in the south, they must grapple with a dozen.
Men and women waited in separate lines, dipping a finger in indelible green ink before voting at cardboard booths.
El-Fatih Khidr, a 55-year-old pilot who came to vote in Khartoum’s Riyadh district, complained that authorities should have opened more voting centres to cope with the crowds.
"There are a lot of crowds and there should have been more information because there is a whole new generation that have never voted," he said.
Up to 300 women in bright clothes and other voters waited patiently for more than an hour in the southern town of Malakal as officials tried to find a vehicle to deliver voting forms, a Reuters witness reported.
When Bashir, a military man who took power in a coup in 1989, turned up to vote at a school near Sudan’s army headquarters, he shouted "God is greatest" to supporters. He then took ten minutes to cast his vote while voters from the army and security services waited outside.
In the south, where most follow Christianity or traditional beliefs, there was a palpable sense of excitement as people took part in polls they see as a prelude to the 2011 referendum that could give them independence from the mainly Muslim north.
Both votes were promised under a 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of north-south civil war.
After voting, Kiir called the vote "a good beginning" for Sudan. "I hope it will be a foundation for future democracy."
But that promising start could go awry if Bashir blocks the plebiscite. The south could try to secede by force or fiat — which would likely mean a renewal of Africa’s longest civil war.
Foreign aid workers and Sudanese were bracing themselves for problems in western Darfur, the scene of a seven-year conflict between government militias and rebels. Aid groups moved staff out of remote areas to cities in case of unrest.
"We’re not expecting widespread violence, only things that might blow up in pockets," an aid official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
(Additional reporting by Andrew Heavens and Missy Ryan in Khartoum; Writing by Andrew Heavens and Missy Ryan: Editing by Giles Elgood)
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Elections in Sudan: one of the most complex polls in the world http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/international/3647.html?print ennahar 11 April, 2010 05:30:00 KHARTOUM - The first multiparty elections in nearly a quarter century in Sudan, from Sunday to Tuesday, are among the most complex in the world with the simultaneous holding of two Presidential, parliamentary and regional:
In the north (15 regional states): Voters vote for the country's president, their deputies to the National Assembly, the governor of their state and the Regional Assembly (Majlis al-wilayat). The elelction of the governor and regional deputies in the sensitive state of Southern Kordofan, situated on the edge of southern Sudan, has been postponed for two months. 60% of seats in national and regional assemblies are assigned in a nominative way, according to electoral districts. The remaining 40% fall in electoral lists, women (25% of seats) and on political parties (15%). A northerner voter will vote eight times: Presidential, National MP for his constituency, regional governor of his state, his constituency MP for regional list of women for national legislation, list of parties registered with the national legislative list for women legislative and regional party lists for regional legislative. In the south (10 regional states): The process is more complex. The voters also vote for the president's semi-autonomous government of Southern Sudan and the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Southern Sudan, Women list and the list of parties in the southerner legislature. In total, the South Sudan will have to check 12 boxes to do their civic duty. A difficult test for a population unaccustomed to democracy and whose illiteracy rate is one of the highest in the world (over 70%). On the ballot, each party is represented by a logo in order to facilitate voting. Some 10,750 polling stations are planned across the country. On three days, each voter will have so in theory about a minute to vote. The election commission considers Sudan to be able to announce the results by April 18. If a presidential candidate does not obtain a simple majority (50% + one vote), which is unlikely, a second round will be held on 10 and 11 May In total, more than 14,000 candidates at all levels participate in these elections boycotted by some opposition.
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Quote: الأحد 26/04/1431 هـ 11 أبريل 2010 م العدد : 3220 الصفحة الرئيسة دوليات بعد ربع قرن ..اليوم
السودان يحبس أنفاسه انتظاراً للصعداء وصناديق الاقتراع نصير المغامسي (موفد «عكاظ» إلى الخرطوم) يعيش السودان حالة من الاستنفار اليوم لانطلاقة أول انتخابات تعددية منذ ربع قرن في أكبر بلد أفريقي خرج قبل خمس سنوات من حرب أهلية ضروس، ولا يزال يشهد حركة تمرد في دارفور، وتململا في الجنوب الذي يستعد لتقرير مصيره بشأن الوحدة أو الانفصال مطلع 2011. وأكدت المفوضية القومية للانتخابات إنهاء الاستعداد في مجمل أنحاء البلاد، التي تبلغ مساحتها مليونين و500 الف كلم مربع، ليتمكن نحو 16 مليون ناخب مسجلين من الإدلاء بأصواتهم من الأحد إلى الثلاثاء؛ لاختيار الرئيس والبرلمان الوطني ومجالس الولايات. ولكن المفوضية كانت لا تزال توزع السبت بطاقات الاقتراع إلى مختلف المناطق في بلد مترامي الأطراف. بدوره، قال الرئيس الأمريكي الأسبق جيمي كارتر، الذي تشرف مؤسسته على الانتخابات، إنه يتوقع أن تسير الأمور على ما يرام، موضحا الجمعة غداة وصوله إلى الخرطوم: «لا نرى سببا يدعو إلى القلق، ما عدا بالنسبة إلى بعض المحطات النائية. المواد الانتخابية قد تصلها متأخرة بعض الشيء، لكن لديهم ثلاثة أيام على الأقل للإدلاء بأصواتهم». وغذت المخاوف بشأن الاستعدادات اللوجستية، الجدال في السودان بشأن تأجيل الانتخابات. وانتقدت بعض أحزاب المعارضة، خصوصا قيام مفوضية الانتخابات بطبع بطاقات الاقتراع للانتخابات الرئاسية في مطابع حكومية بدلا من أن يعهد بها لشركة سلوفاكية اختيرت في وقت سابق. وأنهت الأحزاب السودانية والمرشحون للرئاسة الجمعة حملاتهم الانتخابية، وعلى رأسهم الرئيس عمر البشير الساعي إلى تاكيد شرعيته، فيما يسعى حزبه للحفاظ على الغالبية في المجلس الوطني (البرلمان) الذي يعد 450 مقعدا. وتشكل الانتخابات ورقة مهمة بالنسبة للرئيس البشير لتأكيد شرعيته في وجه الغرب والمحكمة الجنائية الدولية، التي أصدرت بحقه مذكرة توقيف بتهم تتعلق بالحرب في دارفور قبل سنة. وقال البشير في آخر خطاب ألقاه بعد حملة جاب خلالها البلاد، في حي (أمبدة) الشعبي على أطراف أم درمان مساء الجمعة: «ما بنخلي خواجه يهين البلد دي بقمح أو تجارة أو محكمة دولية، دي كلها بنخليها ونمشي لقدام». وأكد البشير في مقابلة مع قناة (الشروق) التلفزيونية السودانية الخاصة أنه سيولي جل اهتمامه للحفاظ على وحدة البلاد، مؤكدا أن استطلاعا أجري في جنوب السودان أظهر أن «30 في المائة» فقط من الجنوبيين يؤيدون الانفصال. وبموجب اتفاق السلام الشامل الموقع في 2005 في نيفاشا، من المقرر أن ينظم مطلع 2011 استفتاء على تقرير مصير جنوب السودان. لكن يشترط لقبول نتيجة الاستفتاء مشاركة 65% من الناخبين المسجلين في الولايات الجنوبية العشر، بالإضافة إلى السودانيين الجنوبيين المقيمين في الشمال. وينبغي أن تكون نسبة التأييد 50% زائد صوت واحد. وأبدى البشير استغرابه لانسحاب حزب الأمة من الانتخابات بعد أن أكد أنه تمت الاستجابة لـ90 في المائة من شروطه. ومع سحب الحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان، مرشحها إلى الرئاسة ياسر عرمان، بات مرجحا أن يتقدم البشير من الدورة الأولى للانتخابات منافسيه السبعة وأبرزهم حاتم السر، مرشح الحزب الاتحادي الديمقراطي، وإن كانت فرصه ضئيلة عمليا. وبعد انسحاب حزب الأمة من الانتخابات، فإن الأحزاب الأربعة الرئيسة الباقية في السباق، إضافة إلى المؤتمر الوطني؛ هي حزب المؤتمر الشعبي بزعامة حسن الترابي، الحزب الاتحاد الديمقراطي والحركة الشعبية لتحرير السودان التي يمكنها من خلال المناطق أن تضمن السيطرة على نحو 25% من مقاعد المجلس الوطني الذي يسيطر المؤتمر الوطني بزعامة البشير حاليا على 52% من مقاعده. وخاض الرئيس البشير حملة انتخابية كثيفة حملته إلى الجنوب، دارفور في الغرب، كسلا في الشرق ومناطق الشمال. ومنذ الآن، أعلنت أحزاب (تحالف المعارضة)، وبينها حزب الأمة، الحزب الشيوعي والوطني الاتحادي عدم اعترافها بنتائج الاقتراع الذي دعت الناخبين إلى مقاطعته. وقال رئيس حزب الأمة الصادق المهدي الجمعة: «إن الأحزاب التي قاطعت تريد انتخابات نزيهة»، مكررا موقفه القائم على المطالبة بتأجيل الانتخابات، الذي رفضته مفوضية الانتخابات. وقبل أقل من 24 ساعة على بدء الانتخابات، لا تزال تصدر تصريحات متضاربة عن الحركة الشعبية بشأن المشاركة في الانتخابات في شمالي البلاد. وقال مرشحها المنسحب ياسر عرمان إن قرار المقاطعة في ولايات الشمال لا يزال قائما، وإن مشاركتها ستقتصر على الولايات الجنوبية العشر والنيل الأزرق وجنوب كردفان. وينتخب سكان الجنوب بالإضافة إلى الرئيس وأعضاء البرلمان، رئيس حكومة جنوب السودان المتمتع بحكم شبه ذاتي ومجلسهم التشريعي. وعلى الأرض، عززت قوات الأمن السودانية والقوات الدولية والمنظمات الدولية انتشارها الأمني، حيث يخشى أن تشكل الانتخابات ذريعة لاندلاع موجة من العنف في بلد لا يزال يعاني من النزاع الدائر في إقليم دارفور غربي البلاد، ومن مواجهات قبلية في الجنوب. وتنشر الأمم المتحدة نحو عشرة آلاف جندي وشرطي في جنوب السودان والمناطق الحدودية بين الجنوب والشمال. بالإضافة إلى الاتحاد الأوروبي الذي ينشر 130 مراقبا للانتخابات في السودان، ومؤسسة كارتر التي تنشر نحو 50 مراقبا، تشارك جهات عدة في مراقبة الانتخابات منها الجامعة العربية واليابان والصين. وانسحب المراقبون الأوروبيون الأربعاء من دارفور لأسباب أمنية. جميع الحقوق محفوظة لمؤسسة عكاظ للصحافة والنشر © جدة: 6760000 |
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Sudan: problems lead to extension of vote
13.04.2010 KHARTOUM and RUMBEK, SUDAN - Voting in Sudan – the first democratic elections in 24 years – has been extended by three days by the National Election Commission in response to widespread problems with voters’ lists and ballot papers.
The elections are being boycotted by opposition parties citing continuing insecurity in the western region of Darfur and allegations of electoral irregularities by the President Omar al-Bashir’s National Congress Party.
The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies released a statement charging the elections commission of with numerous violations of electoral procedure. These included problems with ballot papers, candidates appearing on papers in more than one constitutency; voters being unable to find their names on lists and election observers in at least one case being denied entry to voting centres. The ACPJS, which had called for postponement of the elections, also pointed out afresh that voters in vast areas of Darfur were unable to register to vote due to the presence of hostile security forces in towns and displaced persons camps.
Since conflict erupted in Darfur in 2003, more than 300,000 people have been killed and over one million people displaced by the conflict, according to United Nations estimates. Bashir has been indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Ummah Party, led by former Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, which draws its main support from that region withdrew from the elections.
The most important opposition party, the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM), one of the parties to the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended more than two decades of civil war between north and south and set up this election, withdrew its presidential candidate and has declined to contest elections outside of its stronghold in the south of the country.
Across Southern Sudan, ballot papers have arrived late or in insufficient quantities; in some places election officials have had to halt voting upon realising they were using the wrong papers. As Bashir ######### for an expected victory, the attention of southern voters and leadership is directed towards the referendum on independence planned for January 2011.
A flawed election should prove no impediment to the dream of an independent South Sudan and will strengthen Bashir’s position as he continues to ignore the ICC indictment against him. Where it leaves the people of Darfur and those northerners who want to see change in the North is less sure.
By IPS Correspondents – IPS
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Sudan: “Despite elections, nothing will change”
12 Apr Brussels – 1986 was the last time elections took place in Sudan. After 24 years, the country – almost considered to be lead by a dictatorship – features a leader, the President Amar al-Bashir, who risks remaining the only strong candidate in the up-coming elections, scheduled for 11-13 April 2010.
One by one, the main opposition parties have decided to boycott the polls in most of the country’s areas, while tThe European Union has withdrawn its election observers from Darfur region citing safety fears.
Numerous experts are saying that these elections could also be a boomerang for Bashir, but Marc Lavergne, Director of the Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ-Egypte/Sudan) in Cairo, does not totally agree.
“I think that Sudan is going to be the stage for an electoral farce that won’t change the political equilibrium of the country, not in the short term” says this former Co-ordinator of the Sanctions Committee panel of United Nations Experts on Sudan.
Do you think that the aim of Bashir was to clean his public image through free and democratic elections?
On paper, these elections should allow the government of Khartoum to consolidate its power, show the world that Sudan is not a dictatorship and push the international community to take a step back on the international arrest warrant. On the other side, the West has interests in demonstrating that the money they have spent in Sudan is useful and the opposition needs to resist.
How do you feel about the recent withdrawals?
The decisions taken by certain opponents could change these plans. Bashir and the presidential party won’t clean their image, but there is no alternative to them. The opposition is weak, divided and powerless, while the regime is solid and coherent.
An overthrow could put the country into chaos. This should be avoided, especially within the context of the referendum on South Sudan’s independence coming up in January 2011. This is a crucial point for the International community and corporations too. Stability is vital to exploit the huge oil and food resources of the country.
What future for a country led by a man threatened by an international arrest warrant?
First, Bashir can travel to numerous African, Arab and Asian countries without problem. I also think that the International community, pushed by Russia and China, was in favour of a thaw to obtain democratic multi-party elections. The current climate puts Europe and the United States in a difficult situation.
But apart from that, Bashir’s future will be decided in Sudan, in particular among soldiers, religious authorities and businessmen who have the power with him. They are all from the North and Bashir is the man who can bring them together. If the electoral process fails, we need to wait for the reactions of the authorities in Khartoum, in order to see if somebody wants to change the leader and if this is a concrete possibility.
By Joshua Massarenti – Afronline.org
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Sudan: U.S. support of elections draws criticism Apr 6
WASHINGTON - Recent remarks by the U.S. envoy to Sudan predicting credible elections have led to criticism both here and in Sudan over Washington’s policy toward the African nation.
The statement by Scott Gration that Sudan’s elections will be as “free and fair as possible” came amid an extensive boycott of the presidential elections by major opposition parties in Africa’s largest country.
Last week, President Omar al-Bashir’s main challenger, Yassir Arman, boycotted the presidential elections due to security fears, the continued conflict in Darfur and irregularities in the electoral process. Arman was backed by the South Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), a Christian-dominated group that fought the Sudanese government during what is known as the second Sudanese civil war that lasted for 22 years.
The civil war ended in 2005 when the SPLM and the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Kenya.
Sudanese will cast their ballots from Apr. 11 to 13 in presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections, the first in more than 20 years.
Despite a widespread opposition boycott of the polls, the U.S. envoy to Sudan has come out publicly in defence of the elections.
“They (electoral commission members) have given me confidence that the elections will start on time and they would be as free and as fair as possible,” said Gration in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Saturday.
“These people have gone to great lengths to ensure that the people of Sudan will have access to polling places and that the procedures and processes will ensure transparency,” he said.
Although the SPLM has boycotted the presidential election, it has decided to stay in the race for parliamentary and local elections.
But now with the SPLM-backed Arman out of the race, the incumbent has no serious rival. President Bashir himself was indicted by the Netherlands-based International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2008 for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The concerns over irregularities in the electoral process combined with the ICC indictment have some wondering why the U.S. is supporting the “flawed” election process.
“Scott Gration’s comments on Sudan for quite some time have lacked all credibility,” said John Prendergast, co-founder of Centre for American Progress’s Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity.
“He has an outcome in mind which is a checked box for the elections without any reference to the facts on the ground,” added Prendergast, who was the director of African Affairs at the National Security Council in President Bill Clinton’s administration in 1990s.
By Mohammed A. Salih – IPS
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