{"id":162,"date":"2010-04-07T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=162"},"modified":"2010-04-07T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:48:07","slug":"sudan-party-in-partial-vote-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/04\/07\/162\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan party in partial vote boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"amum\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/amum.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"187\" \/>The Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement has said that it will partially boycott elections set for Sunday.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SPLM, south Sudan&#8217;s main political party, currently shares power at the federal level with the National Congress Party under a 2005 peace accord.<br \/>The announcement on Tuesday raises more concern over the credibility of the legislative, local and presidential polls, after accusations of fraud earlier this week.<br \/>&#8220;We announce the SPLM boycott of all the elections in the north on all levels &#8230; in 13 states of the north,&#8221; Pagan Amum, the party&#8217;s secretary-general, said.<br \/>He said the decision excluded the border states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile.<br \/>Last week the SPLM said that Yasir Arman, its presidential candidate, was withdrawing from the polls.<br \/>The government of Omar al-Bashir was accused this week of adopting repressive security measures and providing unequal access to state media by the opposition Umma party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call for reforms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Umma and several other opposition parties called on Friday for the government to implement crucial reforms within four days, including a revision of voter registration.<br \/>They said that they would not participate in the vote, which should be delayed until May if the reforms were not made.<br \/>Opposition groups have accused the government of only holding the election to re-elect al-Bashir to assist him in the face of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC).<br \/>The ICC, based in The Hague, Netherlands, has charged al-Bashir with war crimes for alleged attrocities in the conflict in the western Darfur region.<br \/>Reporting from Khartoum, the country&#8217;s capital, on the SPLM&#8217;s boycott decision, Al Jazeera&#8217;s Mohammed Adow said: &#8220;It leaves the elections in tatters and also it means that its credibility is affected.<br \/>&#8220;President al-Bashir is one of the only few credible participants in the elections &#8230; [and] the Umma party is now deciding whether to withdraw.&#8221;<br \/>Earlier on Tuesday the national election commision said that the vote would go ahead, while about 50 people protested outside the commission&#8217;s offices demanding &#8220;free and fair&#8221; elections.<br \/>Sunday&#8217;s vote is the first general election to be held in the country for over two decades.<br \/>The Umma and the Democratic Unionist Party, now in the opposition, took first and second place respectively in the last elections in 1986.<br \/>Al-Bashir then took power in a military coup three years later.<br \/>Sudan has suffered two civil wars between the north and south of the country over the past five decades.<br \/>Fighting has also taken place between opposition groups and the government in the eastern Darfur region since 2003, killing about 300,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement has said that it will partially boycott elections set for Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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