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SUDAN / KORDOFAN ELECTIONS WINNER
STORY: SUDAN / KORDOFAN ELECTIONS WINNER
TRT: 1:50
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 14-15 MAY 2011 KHARTOUM, SUDAN
1. Wide shot, press briefing area
2. Med shot, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mukhtar Alassam, Commissioner, National Elections Commission (NEC):
“The result of elections for Governor position - The name of the candidate Ahmed Mohamed Haroun from NCP (National Congress Party) gained 201,455 votes.”
4. Cutaway, cameraman
5. Wide shot, journalists and members of National Election Commission
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mukhtar Alassam, Commissioner, National Elections Commission (NEC):
“Abdel-Aziz Al-Hilu from Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) gained the number 194,955 votes, While Telefon Kuku Abu Jalaha obtained 9,130. Consequently the voted governor is Ahmed Mohamed Haroun.”
7. Med shot, journalists
May 14, 2011, KHARTOUM SUDAN
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasir Arman, Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement:
“The SPLM will not recognize the outcome of the elections and will not take part in the legislative or executive institutions. We demand a new round of elections and we will struggle with all means of democratic ways as a result. SPLM will never go back to war and never forget the rights of people the Southern Kordofan.”
9. Wide shot, journalists with SPLM member
Sudan’s National Elections Commission (NEC) declared that National Congress Party (NCP) candidate Ahmed Haroun has won the gubernatorial seat in the troubled southern Kordofan state elections.
At a press conference held in Khartoum on 15 May (Sunday), NEC disclosed that incumbent candidate Ahmed Haroun won the governorship with 201,455 votes in the state’s poll held between 2 and 4 May.
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) gubernatorial contender Abdel-Aziz Al-Hilu garnered 194,955 votes, while independent candidate Telefon Kuku, who had been campaigning while being detained for over a year, received 9,130 votes.
In his address to the media, NEC Deputy Chairman Abdallah Ahmed Abdallah said “These supplementary elections for Southern Kordofan to elect governor and Legislative Assembly represent the final stage of the electoral process, which was stipulated in the CPA (Comprehensive Peace Agreement).”
Abdallah added that the NEC had been in consultation with political parties during all phases of the elections, and that “none of the domestic or international observers or participating parties had questioned the integrity of these elections.”
According to local news reports, both parties earlier had raised concerns about the transparency of the election process.
Taking the floor at the press conference, NEC Commissioner Mukhtar Alassam listed results for each of the state’s 32 constituencies. Aggregated results showed that the NCP gained 22 seats in the State Legislative Assembly (SLA), while the SPLM garnered 10.
At a press conference on Saturday (14 May), SPLM’s Secretary-General Yasir Arman said his party “will not recognize the outcome of the elections and will not take part in the legislative or executive institutions.”
The state-level elections were initially scheduled to be held concurrently with presidential and National Assembly elections of last April. However, following disputes over the 2008 census results for Southern Kordofan, the NEC postponed gubernatorial and SLA elections in the state, holding only presidential and National Assembly elections over a year ago.
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