The president of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, scored overwhelming victories in a sample of results from national elections.
Both European Union and Carter Center observers have said last week’s elections did not meet international standards, but stopped short of echoing opposition allegations of widespread rigging, writes AfricaNews Moday.
The presidential and legislative polls, set up under a 2005 peace deal that ended two decades of north-south civil war, were supposed to help transform the troubled oil-producing nation into a democracy.
Bashir won between 70-92 percent of votes cast in presidential ballots in around 35 scattered polling centres, foreign voting posts and one state, said state news agency Suna.
Those figures represent a fraction of the country and have not been confirmed by authorities.
