Parliamentary elections in Sudan 2010
The 2010 national parliamentary elections in Sudan coincided with the national presidential elections , the elections for the governors and parliaments of the states of the Sudan, and the parliamentary and presidential elections in South Sudan from April 11th to 15th after being postponed several times. A total of 444 seats were to be allocated in the national assembly of the entire state of Sudan , 348 of which were for the north and 96 in the south of Sudan. According to the official result, they ended with a two-thirds majority of the votes cast for the National Congress Party, which governs the entire state of Sudan, and a good 20% for the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement , the ruling party of the autonomous South Sudan .
The opposition parties and the SPLM accused the National Congress Party in the north of massive electoral fraud in advance. The human rights organization Human Rights Watch lamented media suppression and intimidation. The allegations by the opposition and the SPLM also related to the electoral roll. Nevertheless, the elections are seen as the end of the transition period in which the country has been a de facto divided country since the end of the war of civil secession in South Sudan in 2005. As part of the peace agreement concluded in 2005 (the so-called Naivasha Agreement ), they also form a prerequisite for the implementation and mutual recognition of the independence referendum in South Sudan in 2011 .
Official result
- NCP : 323
- Upper floor north : 20
- SPLM : 99
- Upper floor south : 2
| Political party | proportion of | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| National Congress Party (NCP) | 72.7% | 323 |
| Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) | 22.3% | 99 |
| Opposition groups in the north (upper floor north) | 4.2% | 20th |
| Opposition groups in the south (upper floor south) | 0.7% | 2 |
| total | 100% | 444 |
Voter behavior was sharply north and south and thus Muslim / Christian separated: The National Congress Party got 322 of its 323 seats in the north and only one seat in South Sudan, while the SPLM got 93 seats in the south and 6 seats in the much more populous north. The SPLM did not take part in the conflict region of Darfur because the region is still a war zone and a state of emergency applies. The National Congress Party officially won 87% of the vote here, in West Darfur even 100%.
In the north, the three smaller parties won more than 2 seats each: the Democratic Unionist Party won 4 seats, as did the UF and the Popular Congress Party 3 seats. In the south, the SPLM-DC was the only party other than the SPLM and the Congress Party to win two seats.
Conflict in advance: the electoral roll
The elections were originally supposed to take place in 2009 and have been postponed several times. A major hurdle to holding the elections was agreeing on a electoral roll that required a census . Originally planned for mid-2007, the census was postponed several times and finally carried out in April 2008. The number of inhabitants of the autonomous South Sudan was particularly controversial, which was finally given as around 8 million people out of a total population of 38 million. After initial results reportedly numbered only 3 million, the South Sudan Mission threatened to boycott the election if its population was set at less than 11-13 million. One of the reasons for the different numbers was the counting of the large number of internally displaced persons within Sudan.
See also
Individual evidence
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- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8597996.stm news.bbc, taken on January 4, 2011
- ↑ Private page according to NEC ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8597996.stm news.bbc, taken on January 4, 2011
- ↑ Private page
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7980032.stm news.bbc.co.uk, taken on January 2, 2011
- ↑ http://www.sudantribune.com/FACTBOX-Sudan-to-conduct-first,26824 sudantribune.com, taken on January 2, 2011
- ↑ http://www.sudantribune.com/Sudan-census-committee-say,31005 sudantribune.com, taken on January 2, 2011
- ↑ http://www.sudantribune.com/Sudan-census-delayed-till-year-end,26731 sudantribune.com, taken on January 2, 2011
