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The Sudan People's Liberation Movement has said that it will partially boycott elections set for Sunday.
The SPLM, south Sudan's main political party, currently shares power at the federal level with the National Congress Party under a 2005 peace accord.
The announcement on Tuesday raises more concern over the credibility of the legislative, local and presidential polls, after accusations of fraud earlier this week.
"We announce the SPLM boycott of all the elections in the north on all levels ... in 13 states of the north," Pagan Amum, the party's secretary-general, said.
He said the decision excluded the border states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile.
Last week the SPLM said that Yasir Arman, its presidential candidate, was withdrawing from the polls.
Call for reforms
Umma and several other opposition parties called on Friday for the government to implement crucial reforms within four days, including a revision of voter registration.
They said that they would not participate in the vote, which should be delayed until May if the reforms were not made.
Earlier on Tuesday the national election commission said that the vote would go ahead, while about 50 people protested outside the commission's offices demanding "free and fair" elections.
Sunday's vote is the first general election to be held in the country for over two decades.
The Umma and the Democratic Unionist Party, now in the opposition, took first and second place respectively in the last elections in 1986.
Sudan has suffered two civil wars between the north and south of the country over the past five decades.
Fighting has also taken place between opposition groups and the government in the eastern Darfur region since 2003.
PHOTO CAPTION
People sit by election campaign posters for the upcoming presidential and legislative elections in Sudan's capital Khartoum April 6 2010.
Agencies
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