After repeated delays, an official from the National Elections Commission (NEC) yesterday said that the results of the presidential election will be announced on Sunday. The largest of the opposition parties have already declared that they will not accept Omar Al-Bashir’s expected victory as legitimate. Such statements have also come from key leaders of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM), which was a partner in a unity government with Bashir’s National Congress Party (NCP) before the elections. In response, leading figures within the NCP have warned the opposition of creating disturbances after the elections, vowing that Khartoum will not become the next Tehran or Nairobi.
In this tense environment, news over the last week has also slowly been released about other races for parliamentary, gubernatorial, and local seats – and more announcements are expected in the coming days. Earlier in the week, tensions ran high over the results of the governor’s race in Blue Nile State; however, it now appears that Bashir’s National Congress Party (NCP) is ready to accept defeat to the popular SPLM candidate. The hotly contested race for governor of Unity State in the South also remains a potential flashpoint for violence.
This past week, Sudanese civil society leaders accused the Sudanese government of blocking the independent monitoring site, Sudan Vote Monitor. Likewise, it was reported that YouTube was being blocked in Sudan after the posting of a video that allegedly showed vote rigging in Red Sea State.
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ELECTIONS LINKS
Sudanese Voices
- The Ugly Election – Abd al-Wahab Abdalla at Making Sense of Sudan
- Sudan Elections 2010: Defective beyond repair! – Arman Muhammed Ahmad at Sudan Tribune
- Sudan’s elections: Nothing was “learned from experience” – Ahmed Elzobier at Sudan Tribune
- Sudan Elections = How to start another fight – Giggling Bob
- Democracy 101: Governments shouldn’t block social media sites and … they can’t! – Ibrahim Elbadawi
- Darfur’s election voice (audio) – BBC
Analysis/Opinion
- Obama Backs Down on Sudan – Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times
- Failed Elections in Sudan: Now What? – Ruth Messinger at Huffington Post
- Analysis: Dangerous divisions in Sudan – IRIN
- Parsing the White House Statement on Elections in Sudan – Mark Leon Goldberg at UN Dispatch
- Further Delays – Maggie Fick at the Enough Project
- Observers Disagree on How to Frame the Election – Josh at Project on Middle East Democracy
- Responding to an Electoral Travesty – Eric Reeves at the Enough Project
- Sudan: A Rare Fix that Wasn’t – Dan Morrison
- Uganda should pay close attention to the 2011 South Sudan elections – Kyle Beaulieu at The Independent (Uganda)
- Sudanese Elections: Music & the Vote With NasJota and Girifna – Michal Shapiro at Huffington Post
News from past 4 days
- Sudan delays landmark election result – BBC
- U.S. slams irregularities in Sudan election – Reuters
- Human Rights Groups push for Administration Involvement in Sudan – Eve Zibel at Fox News
- China Praises Sudan’s Elections as ‘Smooth, Orderly’ – Voice of America
- AU observers term Sudan polls as free and fair – The Nation- Zambia
- Observers Offer Contrasting Views on Sudan’s Polls – Voice of America
- SUDAN: Election observers’ digest – IRIN
- Critics renew charges of election fraud in Sudan – Washington Post
- NCP rejects US view of “flawed” elections but warms to future cooperation with Washington – Radio Miraya
- Khartoum warns against poll rioting –Agence France Presse
- Sudan opposition claims video shows election fraud – BBC
- Sudan parties in poll agreement – Al Jazeera English
- South Sudan opposition allege poll fraud – Reuters
- SPLM, opposition question legitimacy of post-election government – Sudan Tribune
- Sudan post-polls govt to be illegitimate-SPLM – Reuters
- SPLM Official Denies Agreement to Accept Sudan’s Election Results – Voice of America
- Sudanese Government Blocks Independent Elections Monitoring Web Site – Voice of America
- Sudan reportedly blocks YouTube over electoral fraud video – Sudan Tribune
- Polling officials protest over unpaid incentives in South – Radio Miraya
- Video: Poll workers stuff ballot boxes in Sudan’s Red Sea State – Radio Dabanga
- NEC delegation arrives in Unity to resolve elections conflict – Radio Miraya
- Unity –Warrap states postpones gubernatorial meeting over tribal clashes – Sudan Tribune
- W. Equatoria alleges electoral fraud as the state awaits landmark results – Sudan Tribune
- Taha, Kiir agree to accept elections results – UNMIS
- NEC sets Sunday as date to announce results of presidential elections – (Arabic)Al Ray Al Aam
- Bashir: the parties that boycotted the elections will not participate in the government – (Arabic) Al Sahafa
- SPLM denies reaching an agreement with the NCP to accept the election results – (Arabic) Al Sahafa
- Al Bashir: the future government will include the largest number of parties – (Arabic) Al Ray Aam
- Forces of Taban (Deng) surround NEC in Unity State – (Arabic) Al Ray Aam
- NCP candidate complains that fraud widespread in Blue Nile – (Arabic) Al Ray Al Aam
- Op-ed by Sadiq Al Mahdi – (Arabic) Al Sahafa
- Atturabi Says All Options Are on the Table Regarding Vote Rigging – (Arabic) Al Jazeera
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