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Khartoum (Agenzia Fides)- Bishop Akio Johnson Mutek, the Catholic Bishop of Torit (Southern Sudan), called on the winners, in the recent elections to reconcile and unite to help in the healing of the political wounds they had caused during the campaigns in the state. Elections, presidential, legislative and local were held in Sudan from 11 to 15 April (see Fides 27/4/2010).
On Sunday May 2 in Torit, speaking with journalists, the Bishop said that the political race was a competition among winners but only one could take the lead, and he added, “ there are no losers in politics as people normally take it or understand ”.
Bishop Mutek urged “those who did not succeed should concede defeat, refrain from straying from the path of peace and accept to work in harmony with the winners while they wait to present their ideals to the voters in the next elections”.
Bishop Akio further, called on the political candidates to forgive one another and reconcile each other for any wrongs that happened during the campaigns and the elections in order to attain peace in the country.
He added that, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in his address last March to the Sudanese Bishops on ad limina visit to Rome, expressed concern about peace in the Sudan and asked Christians and Moslems to live in harmony.
The Catholic Bishop of Torit reiterated that the closeness of the Sudan elections to the Easter celebrations was historic since the country requires healing and resurrection from its bloody past. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 4/5/2010)
