(SS)

A number of the opposition political leaders began to sharply criticize the General Election Commission in Sudan and accused it of bias and dishonesty.

Probably, the statements of the Sudanese opposition leaders in this regard are strange because they coincided with a UN report in which the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hailed the Sudanese Election Commission for its effort to register about 16.5 Sudanese voters despite the difficult security circumstances.

The UN mission and organizations in Sudan, which evaluated the election process in accordance with international recognized standards, have lauded what it called the efforts and balanced performance of the Sudanese election  commission.

In turn, the views of the Sudanese local forces do not agree with the statements of Ki-moon on the General Election Commission. And without making a comparison between the stances of the UN and the Sudanese local opposition, it is obvious that the UN has no interests in hailing the Sudanese Election Commission.

So, the UN statements in this regard, which contradict its previous stances toward Sudan, reflect the UN neutrality and objectivity toward the Sudanese Election Commission.

When we investigated into the correctness of the opposition critics on the performance of the election committee, we found out that the entire accusations were concentrated on the timeframe proposed by Sudan's National Election Commission.

Of course, the existence of a narrow timeframe does not mean that the election is not honest.

The Election act was approved last year, so it is not persuasive the excuse that the timeframe of the election was not adequate.