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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Sudan polls to start despite fraud claims, boycotts Reuters - Friday, April 9 Send IM Story Print By Opheera McDoom KHARTOUM - Sudan's first multi-party elections in 24 years are on track to start on Sunday, with Khartoum dismissing a U.S. suggestion that it would consider supporting a brief delay to ensure greater stability. Incumbent President Omar Hassan al-Bashir hopes a win in the complex presidential, legislative and gubernatorial polls would legitimise his government, in defiance of an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest for war crimes in Darfur. A Bashir victory is almost certain after his two main rivals withdrew, alleging widespread fraud, but it would be overshadowed by questions over the elections' credibility. "Even if all these parties participated I don't think there would be fair or credible elections," said Sudanese activist Omer Elgarrei, founder of the Democracy First group. Western powers, particularly Washington, have made clear that no matter how bad the elections are, their priority is that Sudan holds a peaceful referendum next year when the south of the country votes on whether to secede. But the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations suggested that Washington might accept a late start to the polls, which along with the referendum are a key stage in a 2005 north-south peace deal which ended Sudan's 22-year civil war. "I think our view has been that if a very brief delay were decided to be necessary, and we thought that a brief delay would enable the process to be more credible, we would be prepared to entertain that," Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters. "That's obviously up to the authorities themselves, but the larger picture is that much is awry in this process, and that is a real concern," she said. Khartoum's U.N. ambassador Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem rejected the suggestion. "The government itself cannot do that and elections are not going to be delayed at all," he told reporters. "After all, these types of functions is the responsibility of the national electoral commission and not the government." The election results are likely to stand, even if voting provokes as much controversy as last year's Afghan presidential polls which were marked by fraud. "These elections could be as bad as Afghanistan but with such a tight timetable before the referendum I doubt anyone will insist on a rerun," said one international source following the polls. CARTER DISAPPOINTED The semi-autonomous south is widely expected to vote for independence in the 2011 referendum. All Sudan's opposition parties agree Bashir's National Congress Party, which has ruled for 21 years, has tried to rig the polls but they failed to agree a joint reaction. While two of the largest parties agreed to boycott the polls in most of Sudan's north, other smaller groups remain in the race. International observer missions from the European Union and the Carter Centre will still monitor voting. However, a seven-year conflict has hindered movement in Darfur. The EU said it could not effectively observe the polls there and withdrew its observers from the western region. The International Crisis Group think tank said Darfur had been so manipulated, with many of the region's millions of displaced people not registered to vote, that the territory could swing the national vote and secure a win for Bashir. "Winning big in Darfur is central to the NCP's plan to capture enough votes in the North to ensure its continued national dominance," an ICG report said. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Thursday he was disappointed by the boycotts. "I regret that some of the parties have decided not to participate," he told reporters after he arrived in Khartoum to observe the voting. Sudanese activists say the irregularities began with a flawed 2008 census, demarcating electoral constituencies and fraudulent voter registration. An umbrella group of civil society bodies called Tamam said that more than 1,900 security force members were registered to vote at a tiny police post on an island in the river Nile in Khartoum. Only five policemen are stationed there. Campaigning has witnessed some rare political freedoms. Direct newspaper censorship was lifted, opposition politicians were given some air time on live television and young Sudanese protested outside the National Elections Commission, carrying a coffin which they said symbolised the body's integrity. But the same activists say they were arrested and harassed with one member tortured and still in hiding. "The international community should acknowledge that whoever wins will lack legitimacy," says Fouad Hikmat, ICG's special adviser on Sudan. 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