Sudan postpones elections for constitutional amendment

<p>Sudan's electoral body said Tuesday it postponed elections to allow parliament to consider a constitutional amendment allowing President Omar al-Bashir to appoint state governors who were to have been elected.</p><p id="text2">The National Electoral Commission pushed back polling by 11 days to April 13. It also postponed the date for candidates to apply to stand, from December 31 to January 11.</p><p id="text2">NEC chief Mukhtar al-Assam told journalists parliament "is currently looking at amending the constitution" and that if candidates had applied to stand for state governor before the amendment allowing Bashir to appoint the position was passed, it would "have become a complicated legal issue".</p>
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