Sudan Human Rights Monitor Issue 10

(February-March 2011) On 15 May, the National Elections Commission (NEC) announced preliminary results of the long-delayed South Kordofan gubernatorial and legislative elections, declaring the incumbent National Congress Party (NCP) Governor Ahmed Haroun the victor with 201,000 votes, narrowly beating the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) candidate Abdul Aziz Adam Al-Hilu. The independent candidate and retired Nuba General currently detained by the SPLM, Telefon Kuku, won 9,000 votes. In the legislative elections, the NCP won 22 seats in the National Assembly and the SPLM 10.

The SPLM has dismissed the elections results, and during the tabulation phase of the elections and prior to the announcement of results withdrew. Their withdrawal was sparked by controversy about the tabulation of votes and a “bogus” voting centre allegedly established on the basis of information from the 2008 census rather than the new one completed in June 2010. The Communist, Democratic Unionist, and Popular Congress Parties also rejected the election results.

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