CAIRO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Sudan's presidential and parliamentary votes will start on April 2, 2015, the head of the elections committee Mokhtar al-Assam announced in a news conference on Wednesday.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, 70, and his National Congress Party are expected to easily win the coming votes.
Bashir has been in power for 25 years, surviving an armed rebellion in the western region of Darfur, economic crisis, protests and an indictment by the International Criminal Court on masterminding war crimes in Darfur. (Reporting by Khalid Abdel Aziz in Khartoum, Writing by Yasmine Saleh in Cairo; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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