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As of today, about 16.5 million Sudanese voters will head to the ballot boxes to cast their votes to elect new government and state and national parliaments. The election process will continue until Tuesday.
This democratic process is considered as unprecedented event in terms of the volume of the voters, the huge number of the observers in the presence of 42 US diplomats, the International support and the kind of elections.
With the commencement of this new democratic trend, a number of the political parties, which have been calling for elections for more than two decades, have decided to escape this landmark elections under false pretexts.
Probably, the said forces, which call themselves the national alliance forces, were able to astonish the Sudanese voters, the elections monitors and even the members and supporters of the opposition alliance with their decision not to participate in the elections, although they accepted the previous stages of the elections.
But, the opposition parties, which decided to withdraw from the elections, did not confess that they boycotted the elections after they realized that their chances of wining the elections are weak. It is not a shame for any political party to decide withdrawal from elections because of its weak chances of wining elections.
However, the Juba Alliance forces, which are supposed to be in full agreement on elections, failed to reach a consensus on whether to participate in the elections or not.
The Popular National Congress and the Democratic Unionist Party led by Mohamed Osman Al-Merghani have decided to run in the elections while the Umma Party of Al-Sadeq Al-Mahdi and the Communist party chose not to participate in the elections.
The non-participating parties have called on the Sudanese voters not to go to the polling centers, but the Sudanese voters decided to exercise their constitutional right and participate in the elections.