{"id":184707,"date":"2014-07-29T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/sudan-s-2015-elections-a-nightmare-el-mahdi\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:37:00","slug":"sudan-s-2015-elections-a-nightmare-el-mahdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-s-2015-elections-a-nightmare-el-mahdi","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sudan\u2019s 2015 elections a nightmare\u2019: El Mahdi"},"content":{"rendered":"

El Sadig El Mahdi, president of the National Umma Party (NUP), warned that if the general elections will be held in 2015 under the present circumstances, it will be a nightmare.<\/p>\n

In his Eid El Fitr speech at the Imam Abdel Rahman El Mahdi mosque in Wad Nubawi, Omdurman, the NUP leader stressed that a continuation of the current regime means a continuation of the same policies and the same people, who have ruled the country for the past quarter of a century.<\/p>\n

Holding elections under the present circumstances would mean the continuation of “an unprecedented political and ideological polarisation, a hard economic situation, deteriorating living conditions, a chaotic security situation, and growing regional and international isolation.”<\/p>\n

“Such elections will be an absurd move that will deepen Sudan’s existing crises. The government does not intend to hold general elections with the purpose of a peaceful rotation of power, but is thinking in the same way all other tyrants in the Middle East.”<\/p>\n

El Mahdi said that the solution could be the toppling of the regime, but warned for a repetition of what happened in Syria. The alternative would be that all political, civil, and armed forces agree on a new regime that will concentrate on the realisation of a just and comprehensive peace, and a “complete transition to democracy”.<\/p>\n

File photo: Imam El Sadig El Mahdi among his followers in Wad Nubawi, Omdurman (Namaa Faisal)<\/em><\/p>\n

Related:<\/em><\/p>\n

Umma Party and SPLM-N intensify cooperation in Sudan<\/a> (12 June 2014)<\/p>\n

Umma official urges citizens to join Sudan Revolutionary Front<\/a> (16 March 2014)<\/p>\n

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