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Abdel Mahmoud was born in 1945.<ref name="reu2"/> She has studied medicine in Moscow, Russia, in 1960s<ref name="reu3"/> and qualified as a [[paediatrician]].<ref name="reu2"/> In 1973 she was appointed deputy minister of youth, sports, and social affairs. This her appointment, along with that of Sayeda Nafeisa Ahmed al Amin as a member of the ruling Sudanese Socialist Union politburo, made international news at a time when contemporary estimates put the Sudanese [[female literacy]] rate at 10 per cent.<ref name="reu3">{{Cite news |first=Don |last=Dallas |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20912FB3F5C147A93CAA9178FD85F478785F9 |date=8 April 1973 |title=Sudanese women seek new path |publisher=Reuters }}</ref> |
Abdel Mahmoud was born in 1945.<ref name="reu2"/> She has studied medicine in Moscow, Russia, in 1960s<ref name="reu3"/> and qualified as a [[paediatrician]].<ref name="reu2"/> In 1973 she was appointed deputy minister of youth, sports, and social affairs. This her appointment, along with that of Sayeda Nafeisa Ahmed al Amin as a member of the ruling Sudanese Socialist Union politburo, made international news at a time when contemporary estimates put the Sudanese [[female literacy]] rate at 10 per cent.<ref name="reu3">{{Cite news |first=Don |last=Dallas |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20912FB3F5C147A93CAA9178FD85F478785F9 |date=8 April 1973 |title=Sudanese women seek new path |publisher=Reuters }}</ref> Abdel Mahmoud has served in parliament for 10 years.<ref name="reu2"/> |
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==Presidential candidacy== |
==Presidential candidacy== |
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Revision as of 19:40, 11 November 2015
Fatima Abdel Mahmoud is a Sudanese politician, leader of the Sudanese Socialist Democratic Union. She was in 1973 one of the first women to hold political office in Sudan, and she took part in April 2010 Sudanese general election as the country's first female presidential candidate.[1]
Parliamentary career
Abdel Mahmoud was born in 1945.[1] She has studied medicine in Moscow, Russia, in 1960s[2] and qualified as a paediatrician.[1] In 1973 she was appointed deputy minister of youth, sports, and social affairs. This her appointment, along with that of Sayeda Nafeisa Ahmed al Amin as a member of the ruling Sudanese Socialist Union politburo, made international news at a time when contemporary estimates put the Sudanese female literacy rate at 10 per cent.[2] Abdel Mahmoud has served in parliament for 10 years.[1]
Presidential candidacy
In April 2010 Sudan held its first fully contested elections (i.e. the first to include candidates from opposition parties) since 1986. Abdel Mahmoud's presidential candidacy, along with that of two other aspirants, had in January 2010 been rejected by the Sudanese National Elections Commission, which claimed that Abdel Mahmoud's campaign had failed to secure the necessary stamps on a required list of signatures endorsing her candidacy.[3] Abdel Mahmoud and her supporters protested the decision, which they described as representative of a conspiracy against women, and her candidacy was reinstated by an appeal court before the election.[1]
Many opposition parties eventually boycotted the poll, claiming that it was rigged in favour of incumbent president Omar al-Bashir.[4] Al-Bashir went on to win the election decisively. Election results showed that Abdel Mahmoud had polled 0.3% of the total vote.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e Heavens, Andrew; Opheera McDoom (8 April 2010). "FACTBOX-Sudan's main presidential candidates". Reuters.
- ^ a b Dallas, Don (8 April 1973). "Sudanese women seek new path". Reuters.
- ^ McDoom, Opheera (30 January 2010). "Sudan rejects three presidential candidates". Reuters.
- ^ York, Geoffrey (6 April 2010). "In Sudan, hope for change fades as election nears". Globe and Mail.
- ^ "FACTBOX: Sudan presidential election results". Sudan Tribune. 27 April 2010.