The Sudanese Council of Ministers holds an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in the country

The Sudanese Council of Ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the current situation in the country. And the Sudan news agency reported on Sunday that the meeting will be held under the presidency of Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok.

The problems of the transition period are among the most important crises facing the current government and Hamdok announced on Friday that he had “developed a road map with political parties to end the crisis”, stressing that “de-escalation and dialogue are the only one via out of the crisis “.

The Sudanese prime minister stressed that his country’s authorities will not tolerate “attempts to interrupt the transition period through coups or sabotage,” noting that he has met with all sides in the past period with the aim of addressing differences.

Abdullah Hamdouk (Reuters)

Abdullah Hamdok (Reuters)

It is interesting to note that since the coup attempt on 21 September last, the conflicts have crystallized and differences have emerged between the military and civilian components who have agreed to temporarily govern the country since the fall of the Omar al-Bashir regime in order to call parliamentary elections and form a new authority.

For its part, the Sudanese national Umma Party announced, in a declaration on Sunday, its commitment to the constitutional document, its rejection of any extension of the transition period and the continuation of efforts to bridge the gap between the transitional period partners.

On Sunday, hundreds of Sudanese witnessed a sit-in in Khartoum to demand that the military take power alone in the country, which further complicates the political crisis that Prime Minister Hamdok described as the worst and most dangerous “after the overthrow of former President Omar al-Bashir.

“The sit-in continues and will not be revoked unless the government is dissolved, and by this we mean the dismissal of ministers without the prime minister, “said Ali Askouri, spokesman for the protesters and deserters of the Freedom and Change Alliance, who led the protests against al-Bashir.

On Saturday, protesters poured into the Republican Palace, seat of the transitional authority, chanting “One Army, One People” and calling for a “military government” to get Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world, out of its politics and economic crises.

The protesters went out in response to a splinter faction’s call for the rally for freedom and change, and the splinter faction is seeking to ally with the military.

Furthermore, Jaafar Hassan, spokesman for Freedom and Change (the group calling for the complete transfer of power to civilians), said: “What is happening is part of the coup scenario and blocks the path to democratic transition. is an attempt to do a sit-in and supporters of the former regime participate in it “.

Sunday, the minister of government affairs in Sudan, Khaled Omar Youssef, stressed that drafting the constitution is the most important priority of the transitional government and the main guarantor of the success of the democratic transition process and the achievement of political stability in the country.

He added, through his Twitter account, that “the construction of a permanent constitution that represents a social contract that expresses everyone remains one of our main objectives to which we aspire so that the company can formulate a united will around an agreed national project that the governed and the rulers respect ».

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