Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir has been re-elected for another five-year term, after winning the just concluded presidential election by 94.5 percent votes. The National Election Commission (NEC) on Monday decalared Al Bashir winner after he had polled 5.6 million votes out of six million people who voted in the elections to defeat his major rival, Mr. Fadl Elsid Shuaib, candidate of the Federal Truth Party, who polled 79,779 votes. “Al-Bashir won the presidential polls after obtaining 5,252, 478 votes out of 6,091,412 votes, or 94.5 percent from the valid ballots,” Chairman of the NEC Dr. Mukhtar Alasam, declared. Bashir competed against 15 other candidates, some of them representing small parties with little popular support, while the rest ran as independents. Unlike the 2010 elections, Bashir faced no real competitor as major opposition parties boycotted the vote.
