Purchasing votes in Sudan

Delegations from the National, Islamic Front (NIF) set out for El Gaziera, Kassala, Port Sudan, Darfur and new Halfa to persuade lawyers to vote for the NIF list in the second round of voting for the bar union.

This endeavor has been disapproved of by the lawyers in New Halfa, Gadaref and El-Obied which boycotted the delegation.

Informed sources said that the NIF government has allocated 150 million Sudanese pounds for the delegation in order to purchase votes, letters of threat have been sent to lawyers who support the list of the Coalition for the Recovery of Democracy (CRD). Newspapers have been instructed to avoid publishing news related to the CRD besides attacking the leader of the coalition, Al Khartoum daily said today.