Presidential elections started today in Sudan

Voting poll operations started today ( Wednesday at 9.00 a.m. in Sudan to elect a President for the Republic and members of the national council which is composed of 360 members representing all social strata. The elections will continued until the evening of December 22.

The elections which is participated by 12 million Sudanese voters, is under the competition of five candidates for the Presidency. They are The Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, former President Jaffar al-Numeiri, Malik Hussein, Hussein Mansour and Mahmoud Ahmad Jiha.

As for the candidates of the national council some 270 members will be elected directly while the other 90 will be chosen in indirect elections. Some 35 of them for women, 26 for people of high scientific degrees and 19 seats for vocational.

Each of the 26 Sudanese provinces is represented by one parliament member of the the scientific degree( group) and one women parliament member for each province except in the three more populated provinces where each is represented by three women parliamentarians which are al-Khartoum, al-Jazira and Southern Dafour while al-Nile al-Abiad ( White Nile ) province which comes next in population density will be represented by two women parliamentarians.