Given the 24-year lag since Sudan’s last multiparty election, voting in today's Sudanese election proceeded rather smoothly.
On Day 1 of the three-day vote, millions of Sudanese crowded into polling stations across the country to choose their president, their national and state assemblies, their governors, and other local officials in a very complex balloting process that Sudan’s National Election Commission says was designed to prevent rigging. At polling stations across the capital, Khartoum, even those who expressed their doubts about whether the Sudanese public was actually ready for democracy said that today was an historic opportunity for Sudan to put 22 years of war behind it.
To read the complete news story please visit The Christian Science Monitor.
Given the 24-year lag since Sudan’s last multiparty election, voting in today's Sudanese election proceeded rather smoothly.
On Day 1 of the three-day vote, millions of Sudanese crowded into polling stations across the country to choose their president, their national and state assemblies, their governors, and other local officials in a very complex balloting process that Sudan’s National Election Commission says was designed to prevent rigging. At polling stations across the capital, Khartoum, even those who expressed their doubts about whether the Sudanese public was actually ready for democracy said that today was an historic opportunity for Sudan to put 22 years of war behind it.
To read the complete news story please visit The Christian Science Monitor.