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Published 01-07-2009 18:29   
Presidential elections delayed in Sudan

Presidential elections delayed in Sudan

Presidential elections delayed in Sudan

The first democratic election in Sudan in over two decades has been postponed for a second time and is now scheduled to be held in April 2010.

According to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in July 2005, the presidential and parliamentary elections at the national and state levels were to be held by July 2009. But the electoral board in Sudan said they needed more time to prepare and resolve significant issues, hence elections were pushed back to February 2010.

On Tuesday, the electoral commission announced that due to a delay in completing the national census the elections had to be postponed from February to April next year.

Southerners are anxious of any postponement because it could affect the long-awaited referendum on whether or Southern Sudan should be made a separate independent state, currently scheduled for January 2011. This will be the first democratic election since 1986 when Sadiq al-Mahdi was elected as Prime Minister. He was overthrown in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989 by the current President, Omar al-Bashir.

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