国际英语新闻：Sudanese elections end with announcement of al-Bashir's win

Candidate of the Popular Congress Party Abdullah Deng Nihal and candidate of the Democratic Unionist Party Hatim al-Sir got 396, 139 votes and 195,668 votes respectively in the third and fourth positions, but with a large margin from al-Bashir and Arman.

Candidate of the National Umma Party Sadiq al-Mahdi, who was former Sudanese Prime Minister, obtained 96,868 votes only, while his cousin, candidate of the Umma Party (reform and renewal) Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi obtained 49,402 votes.

As for the leader of the Sudanese Communist Party Mohamed Ibrahim Nugud, he came last in the presidential race as he obtained 26,443 votes only, while candidate of the Socialist Union Party Fatima Abdul-Mahmoud, the first Sudanese woman to run for presidency, preceded Nugud and obtained 30,562 votes.

After the result, al-Bashir said in an address to the nation that his winning was a "victory for all the Sudanese" and vowed to be a president for all the Sudanese people.

Photo taken on April 11, 2010 shows Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (Front) casting his ballot at a polling station in Khartoum, Sudan. Omar al-Bashir won the country's first multi-party elections in 24 years by obtaining more than 6 million votes, the Sudanese National Elections Commission (NEC) announced on Monday.

In the address which was broadcasted by the government TV shortly after the announcement of the elections results, al-Bashir said that "the victory we have achieved is not for the National Congress Party (NCP) alone, but for all the Sudanese."

"I reiterate our commitment to mobilizing the energies to implement our program, with our hands and minds open for all the forces working under the constitution to communicate and consult to institute a national partnership to face challenges with," he said.

He added that "I vow to carry on with organizing the referendum in south Sudan and complete the Darfur peace."