Elections results to reformulate Sudan's political map
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After results of the first multi-party elections in 24 years in Sudan were announced, observers said on Monday that the elections would reformulate the country's political map.
Promising political stability in Sudan
"The elections will lead to a more positive relation between the two parties different from the previous tense one, which will likely contribute to Sudan's political stability in the coming period," Professor Hassan al-Saouri, chairman of the Sudanese Society for Political Science, told Xinhua Monday.
The Sudan's National Elections Commission (NEC) on Monday announced al-Bashir's victory in the first multi-party elections in Sudan for 24 years.
Al-Bashir, candidate of the National Congress Party (NCP), received 6,901,694 votes out of 10,114,301 votes, or 68 percent in the general elections held from April 11 to 15, while the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) President Salva Kiir Mayardit won the post of southern Sudan government president, receiving 2, 616, 640 out of 2,813,83 votes in southern Sudan.
The NCP candidates also won the majority of the seats of the National Assembly (parliament) together with the post of governors in 13 states out of 14 in northern Sudan.
The SPLM, in turn, won 9 posts of state governors out of ten with the majority of the seats in south Sudan legislative council.
"The general elections will have their consequences, and if the two major parties, the NCP and the SPLM, form a coalition, they can rule Sudan for years," al-Saouri added.
Dr. Khalid Abdalla Ahmed Dirar, lecturer at Al Rasid Center for strategic studies in Khartoum, shared the opinion.
He believed the recent elections constitute a golden chance to bring back the relations between the NCP and SPLM to normal track as the former will extend its term for another four years and the latter will continue to rule the south.
"To achieve this objective, a consensus government should be formed by the NCP and the SPLM to include all political spectrums," he told Xinhua.
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