Sudan’s Bashir says next government restricted to parties
participating in the elections
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January 7, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese president Omer Hassan
al-Bashir today warned that the next national government will be
formed only from political parties participating in the upcoming
elections.
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President Omer al-Bashir speaks to the press in Khartoum on 30
November 2014 (SUNA)
Bashir, who addressed a meeting of the National Congress Party (NCP)
students’ secretariat on Wednesday, stressed his party’s keenness to
broaden participation in the parliament in order to enable it to draft
the permanent constitution.
He announced that the NCP will not run in 30% of the electoral
constituencies in order to allow other political forces to be
represented in the parliament.
Bashir described the justification provided by the political forces
which decided to boycott the upcoming elections as “weak”, noting that
the same political forces participated in preparation of the elections
law and formation of the electoral commission.
Sudan’s general elections are set to be held in April 2015, but
opposition parties are refusing to participate saying the NCP holds
absolute control over power and refuses to make any compromise to end
the civil war and allow public liberties.
They have proposed forming a transitional government and holding a
national conference with the participation of rebel groups to discuss
a peaceful solution for the conflicts in Darfur region, South
Kordofan, and Blue Nile states.
The interim government, in accordance with the opposition platform,
would organize general elections once a political agreement on
constitutional matters is reached, inaugurating a new democratic
regime.
The NCP rejects this proposal saying opposition parties must simply
prepare for the 2015 elections and that rebels should sign first peace
accords before to join the political process.
NCP NOMINATIONS
Meanwhile, presidential assistant and NCP deputy chairman, Ibrahim
Ghandour, said in a press conference on Wednesday the Democratic
Unionist Party (DUP) led by Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani has notified his
party of its participation in the elections.
He said that the NCP will officially nominate Bashir for presidency on
the opening day of nominations which is set for January 11th saying
that a national committee will nominate Bashir.
Ghandour said that Bashir’s nomination was endorsed by 23,000 voters
while the National Elections Commission (NEC) stipulates that
presidential nominees must be endorsed by a minimum of 15,000 voters.
The NEC had earlier said that names of presidential nominees along
with women and political parties’ lists of nominees will be placed on
the ballot paper according to the primacy of completing nomination
procedures.
The NCP official underscored his party selected its nominees for the
geographic constituencies and proportional representation lists
following six weeks of extensive consultations.
He pointed some of these constituencies include Gessan in the Blue
Nile state, Um-Jeradil in Central Darfur state and al-Uddaya and
al-Majrour in West Kordofan state.
He stressed that 53% of the NCP nominees will run for the first time,
emphasizing they would not hesitate to apply the statute against any
NCP member who decides to run in the elections independently.
“Any member who does so will be dismissed from the party”, he added.
The NCP’s list of nominees in the geographic constituencies has not
included names of the current state governors while names of five
executive ministers have appeared on the list including minister of
investment Mustafa Osman Ismail, finance minister Badr el-Din Mahmoud,
state minister at the information ministry Yasser Youssef and the
foreign minister Ali Karti.
The nominees for the geographic constituencies also included the
current parliament speaker al-Fatih Izz al-Din, former oil minister
Awad Ahmed al-Jaz, former justice minister Abdel-Basit Sabdarat,
former vice president, al-Haj Adam Youssef, deputy speaker of the
parliament Issa Bashari, former South Darfur governor al-Haj Atta
al-Mannan and former director of the National Intelligence and
Security Services (NISS) Salah Gosh.
The NCP proportional representation list included the first vice
president Bakri Hassan Salih, former first vice president Ali Osman
Taha, presidential assistant Ibrahim Ghandour, former NCP secretary
general Ibrahim Ahmed Omer, former presidential assistant Amin Hassan
Omer besides Sir al-Khatim al-Mirghani, Joseph Makin and Mohamed
Abdel-Karim al-Had.
On the status of the disputed Halayeb region between Sudan, Ghandour
said that elections will take place in the part of Halayeb locality
that is under Khartoum’s control.
According to the administrative division in Sudan, there is a locality
(municipality) known as Halayeb within the jurisdiction of the Red Sea
state but includes parts other than the one in the disputed region.
This statement is the first of its kind from a government official
after the announcement of the election commission that they will hold
polls in the region.
(ST)
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