{"id":11529,"date":"2022-03-01T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-official-blasts-kiir-for-trying-to-organize-elections-with-no-opposition-candidates"},"modified":"2022-03-01T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:47:43","slug":"machar-official-blasts-kiir-for-trying-to-organize-elections-with-no-opposition-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-official-blasts-kiir-for-trying-to-organize-elections-with-no-opposition-candidates","title":{"rendered":"Machar official blasts Kiir for trying to organize elections with no opposition candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>A senior member of South Sudan\u2019s main armed opposition Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has claimed that President Salva Kiir\u2019s ruling SPLM party is trying to organize elections that will have no opposition candidates.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the president asked the international community to support his efforts to hold elections at the end of the transitional period in 2023, which is the timeline for end of the transitional period provided for in the revitalized peace agreement signed in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sudans Post over the weekend, Dut Majokdit, a senior member of the SPLM-IO and close ally of First Vice President Machar, said it will be the first of its kind in history that a ruling party organize an elections in which there are no competing rivals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very ridiculous; the SPLM under President Salva Kiir Mayardit is trying to organize an election for itself. This is the first time for me to hear this in the history of the world that a ruling party organizes election in which it is the sole competitor against itself,\u201d Majokdit said from the capital Juba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo party that shall organize elections without the opposition and in our case, the SPLM party under Kiir should not organize an election without the consent of the opposition groups and the SPLM-IO in particular which is a main signatory to the revitalized peace agreement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The senior opposition official accused President Salva Kiir Mayardit of personally responsible for the delays in the implementation process of the revitalized peace agreement and that the world should react to his actions which he said risk taking the country back to square one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem that the elections should not be held in 2023 is not with the SPLM-IO. It is the government or the SPLM-IG of President Salva Kiir Mayardit that is trying to derail the entire process of the peace agreement and the world should open its eye against the South Sudanese peace spoilers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. A senior member of South Sudan\u2019s main armed opposition Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has claimed that President Salva Kiir\u2019s ruling SPLM party is trying to organize elections that will have no opposition candidates. 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