SPLM yesterday announced its withdrawal from the committee handling aggregation of South Kordofan’s elections results, citing claims of spotting a “bogus” polling site.
Results of South Kordofan’s gubernatorial and legislative election were due to be announced on May 10 2011, but disagreements over how many committees should handle results aggregation suspended vote-counting, Sudan tribune website reported.
The deadlock was broken after a delegation from the National Elections Commission (NEC)arrived in the state and brokered an agreement to assign three committees comprising party agents and observers to review results of all polling stations.
NEC officials said that the three committees would be able to finish vote aggregation within three or four days after which the results would be announced.
However, the situation was complicated when the SPLM announced on Tuesday the withdrawal of its representatives from the results-aggregation committees.
The SPLM’s spokesman in South Kordofan, Mohamdeen Ibrahim, said that the SPLM had discovered “a bogus polling station” in Kaddam constituency at Laqawa locality in the state’s western sector.
Mr. Mohamdeen said that the center was unknown to NEC and political forces, and it had had no party agents or observers.
He claimed they had seized five filled ballot boxes at the polling center.