three days before elections due in Sudan on Sunday 11 to Tuesday, April 13 The political situation is anything but quiet fan and some people in Washington a possible and desirable court.
These should be the first multiparty elections held since 1986 and, in one session, will include the presidential, parliamentary and administrative. Their relevance is the fact that this vote will be crucial to understand how the country's political forces to start the referendum on the independence of the country planned for the January 2011.
The Sudan in 2003 was the scene of heavy violence in the impoverished Darfur region when a group of non-Arab rebels took up arms against the Khartoum government, accusing him of having abandoned the region. The United Nations has estimated that at least 300 000 people were killed by Arab militias and the Sudanese government has always maintained that the dead were not more than 10 000.
Currently Sudan is led by the National Congress Party led by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in 2009 has been identified by the International Criminal Court in charge of war crimes in Darfur.
The opposition Umma party, inspired by Islam, has declared its intention to boycott The vote thus putting at serious risk the credibility of the elections. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement announced the same intention thus widening the front of the protesters.
The Umma Party has declared its opposition after the vote that international observers had reported the lack of security in many cities of the country and after the ultimatum had put the government in Khartoum, 2 April last year, demanding the guarantee of 'beginning of a process of reform and the postponement of elections in May.
In 1986, the Umma Party won the election unless it is immediately removed from the sl-President Omar Bashir, which takes for granted a victory in this election. Do not think so in Juba, the capital of the south, where the inhabitants consider much more important than the next referendum for independence from the Arabs. E 'for this circulating in the south of the country people wearing ironic t shirts with slogans like "Vote for Pedro" or "Vote SPLM" to prove their lack of consideration for the elections tomorrow. The problem is that without this election there will be a referendum and so threatening to clear the region's long struggle for independence. The tension between the Khartoum government and the territory of Juba is also because the stars have not yet been defined some key elements the geopolitics of the future, such as the border between North and South as well as those who will be the revenue from the extraction of oil. The application of the guidelines of the peace treaty of 2005 (Comprehensive Peace Agreement-CPA) that ended the long civil war can not happen before the referendum creating a sort of short circuit between it and the upcoming elections. Elections.
The International Crisis Group issued a document arguing that "there are conditions so that these elections be free and fair" and that the NCP (National Congress Party), among others, has manipulated the results of the census, drafted laws that promote and co-opted by systems, traditional tribal leaders. Under these conditions it is obvious that the opposition parties of south and north intend to boycott the vote.
European observers have reported that their part, "In some areas of Darfur violence is terrible and humanitarian aid can not reach as we can not get ourselves."
Among the international observers present in the country to monitor the progress of the elections there is also the former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, whose international observatory, the Carter Center, has sent 65 observers to the African country while those sent by the European Union are 130.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the other hand its hoped that the mandate which requires the presence of UN troops in the country until the end of April to be extended for a year to promote the cave holding the referendum in January.
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