respective democratically elected legislatures accordance with the provisions stated therein. in Abyei Area 183 (1) Without prejudice to any of the provisions of this Constitution and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the Protocol on the Resolution of the Conflict in Abyei Area shall apply with respect to Abyei Area. (2) Abyei Area shall be accorded special administrative status under the Presidency, in which residents of Abyei Area shall be citizens of both Southern Kordofan and Bahr el Ghazal. (3) Simultaneously with the referendum for southern Sudan, the residents of Abyei Area shall vote in a separate referendum, which shall present the residents of Abyei Area, irrespective of the results of the Southern Sudan Referendum, with the following choices:(a) that Abyei Area retain its special administrative status in the north, (b) that Abyei Area be part of Bahr el Ghazal. (4) The January 1st, 1956 line between the north and the south shall be inviolable, except as agreed in sub-Article (3) above.   Interim Provisions for States 184 (1) Pending the elections referred to in Article 216 herein: (a) Governors shall be appointed by the President of the Republic in consultation with the First Vice President. In the case of Southern Sudan, the President of Government of Southern Sudan in consultation with Vice President of Government of Southern Sudan, (b) The Governor of one Southern Sudan state shall be a nominee of the National Congress Party and one Deputy Governor in a different Southern Sudan state shall also be a nominee of the National Congress Party. (2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-Article (3) below, seats of the legislatures and executives of the states shall be allocated as follows:(a) The National Congress Party shall have seventy percent of the seats in the Northern states, and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement shall have 73