Battle Over The Transitional Constitution Of The Republic Of South Sudan "The first observation of this review committee is that it is not technical. It is a political committee."08 March 2011 By John Mayen Jurkuc
(A Gurtong’s abstract from a much longer critical article covering wider issues) - As you move from Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) to the Republic of South Sudan, the new nation must have a new constitution to govern it. To have this constitution it must be based on the existing legal and constitutional documents (the CPA, the Interim Constitution of Southern Sudan, the Interim Constitution of Republic of Sudan) and/or best practice in as far as the South Sudan and other countries are concerned. Based on this background, the President of GoSS issued several decrees, in February and March this year, appointing members of the so called technical committee from SPLM, other Southern Political Parties and civil society, to review the Interim Constitution of Southern Sudan. The first observation of this review committee is that it is not technical. It is a political committee. A handful of members are technicians. If you appoint politicians to review the constitution, you are bound to have a serious conflict, because each politician will try to insert his interest into the constitution. This is exactly what is happening in the review committee. The SPLM wants to write the constitution to the exclusion of others. For instance, the SPLM wants to carry the CPA interim institutions into the new country to the exclusion of others. A case in point is the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) and to appoint Southern members of the Khartoum based national assembly into the SSLA to form the Transitional Assembly of the new nation. This is ridiculous. Everyone knows that the infamous rigged April elections brought nearly all members of the SPLM. Are you going to have the SPLM Transitional Parliament to write the Constitution of the new republic? Imagine how that nation will look like under the SPLM constitution. We call upon the people of good will both within the SPLM and the international community to rescue this newly born nation from the tyranny of a clique within the SPLM, who have already squandered resources of South Sudan and now want to write themselves into the new constitution of infant nation to be. John Mayen Jurkuc Juba, South Sudan Posted in: Opinions -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
