Sudanese incumbent President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has won the African country’s presidential elections, extending its 25-year rule.
Sudan’s National Electoral Commission announced on Monday that Bashir has secured a new five-year term by winning 94.5 percent of the votes.
Bashir, 71, who seized power in a 1989 coup, was competing with 15 little-known candidates in the vote whose turnout was announced 46.4 percent.
Forty-four parties, running for the state and national parliaments, were dominated by Bashir’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
Main opposition parties in the country of almost 38 million people had boycotted the three-day elections.
The voting process, which opened in Sudan’s presidential and parliamentary elections on April 13, was being monitored by 15 international organizations, including the Arab League and the African Union, according to Sudan’s National Election Commission.
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Commission électorale nationale du Soudan, a annoncé lundi que Bashira obtenu un nouveau mandat de cinq ans en remportant de 94,5 % desvoix.
