KHARTOUM, April 2 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese Umma party, led by Sadiq al-Mahdi, decided Friday to continue participation in the country's general elections, salted for April 11 this year.

"The party's strategy is to continue in the electoral process, provided that the National Elections Commission (NEC) responds to certain demands," Siddiq Mohamed Ismail, secretary general of the Umma party, told reporters in Khartoum.

"If our demands have been fulfilled, we will carry on with our participation in the elections, and if not, the party will then decide its final position, which will likely to be boycotting the elections," he added.

The party had demanded postponement of the elections for four weeks till the end of first week of May, 2010.

The Umma party stressed importance of admitting that the elections in Darfur region would be incomplete and called for working out necessary measures to ensure involvement of the region in all power institutions.

The party secretary general said his party had also demanded the NEC to abide by the election law regarding funding electoral campaigns of the parties, freedom of press and information, stopping utilization of the state resources and potentialities in the electoral campaigns and setting a ceiling for the expenditure on the elections.

Sudanese opposition parties on Thursday divided among themselves as some decided to boycott the general elections, some decided to participate and others would announce their positions later.