Sudan’s NUP launches its "million signature" campaign for regime change
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July 6, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese opposition National Umma Party
(NUP) will launch its “memorandum for liberation” campaign on Sunday
which aims at collecting peoples’ signature to change the government,
officials here said today.
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Sudan National Umma Party leader al-Sadiq al-Mahdi (AFP)
The NUP announced that the campaign will kicks off in its headquarters
at 7:00 pm on Sunday.
The NUP member of information office in Khartoum state, Ayoub Mohamed
Abbas, said that the party’s leader, al-Sadiq al-Mahdi, will be the
first person to sign the memorandum.
He added that the memorandum is not only confined to NUP members, but
all Sudanese people, pointing that all political parties from
opposition and government were invited to attend the launch of the
campaign.
The NUP official said that the signing of the memorandum will begin in
Khartoum and will proceed to cover all states.
In the same context, the NUP leading figure, Abd Al-Jalil al-Basha,
said that the move comes in fulfillment of the NUP’s message to the
government which was delivered by Al-Mahdi who urged the government to
approve the comprehensive political solution or face the sit-ins and
public campaigns.
Meanwhile, the NUP secretary general in Khartoum state, Abdul Rahman
Saleh, called upon NUP members and its religious wing “ Kayan
Al-Ansar” to attend the launching of the campaign.
Late last week, the NUP organized a mass rally in Sudan’s twin capital
of Omdurman in which it called for establishing a new regime in the
country in a rare show of force.
In his address to the rally, the NUP leader accused the government of
bad policies that split the country into two, allowed for
international intervention, breeding extremist Islamic factions,
mismanagement of money during the oil boom that neglected crucial
productive sectors and destroyed civil service.
"The regime that seized power through a coup and established
empowerment through exclusion and making people poor, abusing human
rights, tore the country and subjected it to internationalization so
it deserves to be asked to leave; Leave!", he said.
"We are working to establish a new system that frees the country from
tyranny and corruption and achieve complete democratic transformation,
comprehensive and just peace and our means to achieve this is through
mobilization and sit-ins and all the available methods except violence
and utilizing the outside [foreign forces]", Al-Mahdi added.
However many opposition figures and even some within the party assert
that al-Mahdi has no genuine interest in seeing the regime go.
They also point out that al-Mahdi’s son Abdel-Rahman is an assistant
to president Omer Hassan al-Bashir.
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