SPLM Deputy Chairman Aggar disapproves election’s boycott in North Sudan
April 7, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Deputy Chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Malik Aggar, distanced himself from the boycott of general elections in northern Sudan announced by his party yesterday saying it was not the official position of the SPLM leadership.
Pagan cited irregularities by the NCP of Omer Al-Bashir in the build-up to the vote, use of government logistics, and the control of state’s organ including the National Election Commission by the ruling party.
However, in statements made from Damazin the capital of Blue Nile where he is conducting his campaign for the state governor, Aggar said that the boycott decision is emanating from the SPLM Northern Sudan sector.
He further stressed that the boycott decision taken by the SPLM Political Bureau last week concerns only the Sudanese presidency and the restive Darfur region.
Aggar concluded by saying that candidates in northern Sudan are free to participate or to withdraw from the electoral process.
Due to the different perspectives offered to the two SPLM sections in northern and southern Sudan, the leadership of the party which is favoring the independence of the semi-autonomous region failed to convince the northern Sudan candidates to run for gubernatorial and legislative elections.
Al-Haj Warraq, the man behind Arman electoral campaign said in a tribune published this week that the electoral campaign had only to mobilize and organize the street ahead of popular uprising to dislodge Bashir government at the end of the “fraudulent elections”
(ST)