The members of the ‘Troika’ – Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States – announced in a press release yesterday that they do not consider the recent Sudanese elections to express the will of the people.
The three Western government “regret the Government of Sudan’s failure to create a free, fair, and conducive elections environment,” reads a joint press release.
Diplomats of the three countries cited restrictions on political rights and freedoms and “the lack of a credible national dialogue and the continuation of armed conflict in Sudan’s peripheries” as reasons for low participation and “very low voter turnout.”
“The outcome of these elections cannot be considered a credible expression of the will of the Sudanese people,” the Troika governments stated.
They also called for a peaceful ‘political process of dialogue’ to end conflict and condemned acts of violence during the election period.