THE CALLS FOR THE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN JUNE 2015 IS A BIG JOKE!
THE CALLS FOR THE GENERAL ELECTIONS IN SOUTH SUDAN THIS TIME IS A BIG JOKE!
By Deng Bul
January 19, 2015 (SSB) — In my own analysis, the calls for elections in south Sudan is unwanted one and unacceptable in term of our current situation in the country.The country is now desperately devastated by the current war and there is no need for elections to be hold before the peace has restored to the normal sanity.
For me, I know there are some people who might claiming that it was a constitution right to allow general elections to be held this year but I would like to assure these people that we cannot follow the constitution to its mandate but to based our constitution to the situations we are facing now that’s why we have created the position of prime minister which was not there in our constitution. It’s because of numerous challenges that facing us at the moment.
As I say it was unwanted one and unacceptable.
First, The census was supposed to be conduct so that the government of South Sudan may know the number of population living the country or those who are going to cast their votes in forthcoming general elections.
Second,The electoral commission should been given ample time to conduct civil education and others election materials so that they could have register the voters within a framing time but not in a hurry situations like now.
Third, As we all know the majority of the population is now refuge in neighboring countries such as Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia and it will be very hard for electoral commission to go through these countries for registration processes.Thereafter we can also remember that we cannot be allow again to vote in diaspora like what we did during the referendum we are now an independent state so we can conduct our election in our country.
Fourth, The delay of peace agreement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and this is the one that denied the general elections to be held this year.Without peace, I don’t see any moods of elections among these three groups, the government, the opposition and the former political detainees when they are not reconcile and healings.
Lastly,I oppose the general elections now in South Sudan because of the following I have stated above. it should been extended to 2017 so that we can take time for the preparations of peaceful elections.
The author should been reached at dengbul81@yahoo.com
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