Khartoum, April 25: Sudan’s electoral commission said on Sunday it hoped to announce the result on Monday of the country’s landmark polls which are expected to see a win for veteran President Omar al-Beshir.
“We hope to be able to announce the result of the national presidential election, or of the presidential election for south Sudan, on Monday, God willing,” Al-Hadi Mohammed Ahmed, a senior official with the National Election Commission (NEC), told reporters in Khartoum.
The NEC has received results from 20 of the 25 Sudanese states. It has also received the results of polling abroad where the diaspora were asked to vote for a president, but not for parliamentary and state representatives.
“We are still waiting for results from five states,” in south Sudan, Ahmed said.
The NEC has been announcing results as they become available from the presidential, parliamentary and state elections, the country’s first multi-party polls since 1986.
The election is likely to see victory for Beshi. South Sudan leader Salva Kiir is also expected to maintain his position as head of the autonomous southern regional government.
The south is also due to hold a referendum in January next year on whether it wants to break away from the north, or stay as part of a united Sudan.
—Agencies