North Sudan: NCP accuses political parties of seeking to thwart
dialogue with NUP
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March 27, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The ruling National Congress Party (NCP)
in north Sudan has accused some parties with the opposition coalition
of seeking to scuttle its bilateral dialogue with the opposition
National Umma Party (NUP) led by Sudan’s former Prime Minister
Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi.
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NUP leader Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi (L) Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir (R)
(FILE PHOTO)
Al-Mahdi drew the ire of his allies in the National Consensus Forces
(NCF), an umbrella group of mainstream opposition parties, and even
within ranks of his own parties when he met on Thursday evening with
President Omar Al-Bashir at his residence in Khartoum and told a news
conference held afterward that his party and Al-Bashir’s NCP had
agreed to continue their dialogue over what he terms as “the national
agendas.”
The rifts within the opposition coalition first emerged when Al-Mahdi
held a surprise meeting with Al-Bashir in January this year at a time
when other opposition parties were pushing for confrontation with the
NCP, which they blame for a long list of failures including the
secession of south Sudan and worsening economic conditions.
Informed sources within the NCF told Sudan Tribune that Al-Mahdi’s
decision to hold dialogue with the NCP gives a strong indication that
his alliance with other opposition parties was doomed to end, saying
that opposition parties would call for an urgent meeting to consider a
decision to expel the NUP from the opposition alliance.
Ibrahim Gandoor, the NCP’s political secretary, on Sunday told the
Sudanese Media Center (SMC), a news service closely linked to the
country’s intelligence crops, that his party would not heed the voices
trying to "torpedo" its dialogue with the NUP, adding that those
voices were actuated by “personal agendas” known to his party and the
NUP.
Gandoor further said that those calling for an end to the NUP-NCP
dialogue were "deliberately turning a blind eye to the reality of his
party’s dialogue-oriented approach towards all political forces."
Meanwhile, the NCP’s political sector was briefed on Sunday about the
progress of dialogue with political forces, especially the NUP and the
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
The party’s leading member Haj Magid Siwar said that his party was
willing to conduct a dialogue with its splinter group the Popular
Congress Party (PCP), whose leader Hassan Al-Turabi remains in
detention over his calls for a revolt against the government, if the
latter accepted the deal.
Political tension in north Sudan has escalated against the background
of worsening economic conditions caused by rising inflation and
shortage of foreign currency reserves as well as the secession of
south Sudan which voted for independence in a referendum earlier this
year.
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