{"id":184209,"date":"2014-10-19T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/south-darfur-politicians-demand-more-parliament-seats\/"},"modified":"2014-10-19T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T13:19:00","slug":"south-darfur-politicians-demand-more-parliament-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/south-darfur-politicians-demand-more-parliament-seats","title":{"rendered":"South Darfur politicians demand more parliament seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of political parties in South Darfur will boycott the state\u2019s elections in April 2015, should the number of seats in the state\u2019s parliament not be increased from 48 to 71.<\/p>\n<p>Abakar El Tom, secretary general of the Democratic Unionist Party branch in South Darfur, told Radio Dabanga that 12 political parties in South Darfur state, as well as the rebel signatories of the Darfur peace agreement, filed a legal appeal to the National Electoral Commission on Wednesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey demand the Commission reconsider the allocation of 48 parliament seats for&nbsp;South Darfur state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El Tom explained that they base their demand on the national census of 2008. \u201cThe results of the census proved that with its population of about four million people, South Darfur state is the large second state in Sudan, after Khartoum state. 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Abakar El Tom, secretary general of the Democratic Unionist Party branch in South Darfur, told Radio Dabanga that 12 political parties in South Darfur state, as well as the rebel signatories of the Darfur peace agreement, filed a legal appeal to the National Electoral Commission on Wednesday.\u00a0\u201cThey demand the Commission reconsider the allocation of 48 parliament seats for\u00a0South Darfur state.\u201d El Tom explained that they base their demand on the national census of 2008. \u201cThe results of the census proved that with its population of about four million people, South Darfur state is the large second state in Sudan, after Khartoum state. Furthermore, South Darfur has a large ethnic diversity that should be reflected in its parliament.\u201d File photo: \u00a0Nyala, capital of South Darfur, by night (Hamid Abdelsalam\/Unamid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Darfur politicians demand more parliament seats - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/south-darfur-politicians-demand-more-parliament-seats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Darfur politicians demand more parliament seats - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A number of political parties in South Darfur will boycott the state\u2019s elections in April 2015, should the number of seats in the state\u2019s parliament not be increased from 48 to 71. 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