Sudanese elections end with announcement of al-Bashir's win
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The Sudanese elections on Monday came to an end with the announcement that the incumbent President Omar al-Bashir was elected for a new four-year term in office, while President of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit won the post of president of south Sudan government.
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir greets his supporters in Khartoum, capital of Sudan, April 26, 2010. Omar al-Bashir won the country's first multi-party elections in 24 years by obtaining more than 6 million votes, the Sudanese National Elections Commission (NEC) announced on Monday. [Mohammed Babiker/Xinhua] |
Chairman of Sudan's National Elections Commission (NEC) Abil Alier announced at a press conference Monday that al-Bashir has obtained 6,901,694 out of the total 10,114,310 votes, or 68 percent of the votes.
Kiir, who only attended the elections in south Sudan, obtained 2,616,640 votes, or 93 percent of the total votes, while his rival Lam Akol Ajaween, president of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-Democratic Change (SPLM-DC), obtained 197,217 votes, accounting for 7 percent.
The announcement of the results of the presidential elections included 12 candidates, despite the fact that four of them have withdrawn from the elections.
SPLM candidate Yassir Arman came second after al-Bashir, obtaining 2,193,826 votes in spite of his withdrawal from the elections.
Candidate of the Popular Congress Party Abdullah Deng Nihal and candidate of the Democratic Unionist Party Hatim al-Sir got 396, 139 votes and 195,668 votes respectively in the third and fourth positions, but with a large margin from al-Bashir and Arman.
Candidate of the National Umma Party Sadiq al-Mahdi, who was former Sudanese Prime Minister, obtained 96,868 votes only, while his cousin, candidate of the Umma Party (reform and renewal) Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi obtained 49,402 votes.
As for the leader of the Sudanese Communist Party Mohamed Ibrahim Nugud, he came last in the presidential race as he obtained 26,443 votes only, while candidate of the Socialist Union Party Fatima Abdul-Mahmoud, the first Sudanese woman to run for presidency, preceded Nugud and obtained 30,562 votes.
After the result, al-Bashir said in an address to the nation that his winning was a "victory for all the Sudanese" and vowed to be a president for all the Sudanese people.
