North Sudan: DUP threatens to join regime-change seekers
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April 3, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in
north Sudan has shifted its tone towards the ruling National Congress
Party (NCP) and threatened to seek regime change should the latter
rejects a draft constitution the DUP intends to put forward in their
next round of talks.
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DUP leading member Ali al-Said (Al-Haqiqah newspaper website)
Political tension has risen in north Sudan following the secession of
the oil-producing south Sudan in a referendum in January and the
worsening economic conditions that ensued.
The wave of revolts currently convulsing the Middle East has also
stoked discontent and doubled pressure on the NCP, which is attempting
to create rifts within the coalition of mainstream opposition parties
by holding bilateral dialogue with the DUP and the National Umma Party
(NUP) led by former prime minister Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi.
Under the leadership of Mohamed Osman Al-Mirghani, the DUP has been
facing speculations that the party is likely to agree on a
power-sharing deal with the NCP.
But Ali Ahmad Al-Said, a senior member of the DUP, on Sunday strongly
denied that his party was engaged in power-sharing talks with the NCP.
“Any talk on participation is not an option for us,” Al-Said asserted,
adding that his party’s dialogue with the NCP was confined to
discussing “a new constitution.”
According to Al-said, the draft constitution that his party intends to
put forward would contain demands for conducting early elections and
placing a two-year limit on presidential and parliamentary terms.
Should the NCP rejects the draft constitution, Ali Al-Said warned, his
party would join those calling for a regime change.
“We are moving in [two] specific pathways: one is negotiations and the
other is regime change” the DUP’s leading member said, indicating that
some of the party’s top leadership “totally rejects dialogue with the
NCP and supports the regime-change option.”
“If the NCP rejects the constitution, we would give preference to the
choice of regime change” Al-Said said. “It will either be democracy or
confrontation,” he added.
Ali Al-Said went on to criticize the NCP, saying that its mentality
does not comprehend the importance of dialogue and that some of its
members deal with it as “a mean to buy more time.”
The DUP threat follows another threat issued on Friday by the NUP
leader Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi who warned the NCP against facing a popular
uprising if it does not conclude talks with his party within a week.
Meanwhile, the NCP’s political secretary Ibrahim Gandur said that
change in Sudan is conditional upon consensus among political parties.
Gandur further called on political forces to agree with the
government’s programs and the established cornerstones of religion and
patriotism.
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