São Paulo –Brazil and Sudan signed this week a memorandum of understanding in the field of elections, during a visit of the Sudanese delegation of the National Election Commission (NEC) and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE, in the Portuguese acronym), in Brazil’s capital, Brasília. The document was signed by the president of the TSE, Dias Toffoli, and by the chairman of the NEC, Mukhtar Al-Assam.
The Sudanese ambassador to Brazil, Abd Elghani Elnaim Awad Elkarim, told the official news agency Sudan News Agency (Suna), that the agreement covers cooperation to develop the management of the election operation, support to democratic institutions and eventual international monitoring of elections.
“It is a memorandum of understanding that sets some principles which may regulate an eventual technical cooperation,” said the chief advisor for international affairs of the TSE, Tarcísio de Lima Ferreira Fernandes Costa, according to a communiqué from the TSE. “At this moment a conceptual framework was signed, so this is a starting point to identify areas which may be of interest to the Sudanese,” he added, according to the communiqué.
The TSE has also informed that the Sudanese watched a presentation on the Brazilian electronic voting system, they saw equipment such as the voting machine and the biometric identifying system which will be adopted as of this year, and according to the secretary of Information Technology at the TSE, Giuseppe Dutra Janino, “they were quite impressed”.
Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça
