Vote-fixing in an election lacking any credibility has galvanised opposition in the North and may undermine the ruling party
A beaming President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir waved his stick triumphantly as his victory was announced in Khartoum on 26 April. Yet the ruling National Congress Party faces a succession of challenges after what many African and Western officials call deeply flawed elections - though mainly in private. The divided and formerly supine Northern opposition now looks determined to continue the struggle triggered by the polls.
The boycott of the elections in the North by much of the opposition was vindicated in the eyes of many independent observers when they saw the extent of the voting fraud by the NCP (aka National Islamic Front, NIF). This means that for both Sudanese and foreigners, such fraud has scuppered any idea that President Omer could claim a popular mandate for his defiance of the International Criminal Court's warrant to arrest him.
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