South Sudan has announced it will hold the first national elections since the country was founded in 2010.
The next elections, according to the schedule, shall be conducted in April 2015, as first general election since the semi-autonomous region declared independence from Sudan.
The Country’s cabinet on Friday approved a sum of over 30million South Sudanese pounds for the exercise and directed the national elections commission to immediately begin establishing its organizational structures at the national level and across the 10 states of the country.
The minister of information and official spokesperson of the government, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, said, “The national elections commission is supposed to commence its work to become fully operational in order to organize itself… and to prepare for the elections of 2015…We need the elections for our democratic transformation and conducting ourselves in a democratic manner.”
The preceding 2010 general elections were however marred with subsequent violence and rebellion which originated from within the ruling party (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – SPLM) as members accused themselves of not following the right procedures for selection of candidates and later on rigging the elections as well.
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