SPLM prepared to win 2023 elections, says Lam Both

JUBA – South Sudan’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) under President Salva Kiir Mayardit is very fully prepared to win the would-be general elections slated for end of transitional period in 2023.

Based on the revitalized peace agreement, South Sudan parties shall go to polls at the end of a 36-month transitional period which is now February next year for the people of South Sudan to choose who they want to lead them.

But the agreement provides says that certain provisions of that agreement must be fully implemented to avoid return to conflict between the parties during the elections conduct and to also avoid elections rigging.

Those provisions include the reunification of the rival forces into a professional one national army, that is to separate the army from politics to avoid return to conflict over political issues.

Speaking to journalists following a meeting with President Salva Kiir Mayardit this evening, Peter Lam Both, the interim secretary general of the SPLM party, said the group’s supporters are for elections in 2023 and that the SPLM is ready to win that elections.

“I have reported to the president the need of our people in the grassroots level especially the members of the SPLM party and they are calling on the leadership of the SPLM to go ahead with the organization of elections because they are tired,” he said.

“Also I want to stress that the SPLM under H.E the President of the Republic is very fully prepared to win the elections when it is organized next year in 2023 and this is what I have seen at the state and grassroots levels,” he said.