Upcoming Election
Despite his international arrest warrant, President Omar al-Bashir remains the leader of the NCP and its primary candidate in the upcoming 2010 Sudanese presidential election, the first election with multiple political parties participating in ten years. His political rival is Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit, current leader of the SPLA.
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“Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)