After the Sudanese tripartite mechanism (the UN, the AU, and Igad) expressed its hope that the consultations between the civil and military components would be concluded in two weeks, some demands made by the army leaders to accept the draught of the transitional constitution put forth by the country’s bar association started to come to light.
According to reliable sources, the army preferred a “head of a civil state” to a “extended council for sovereignty” as the representative of the Sovereign Council and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
The daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that the draught constitution also specified how the “rapid support” forces would be integrated into the army and what specific actions would be taken to accomplish this.
The military also objected to the constitution’s “transitional justice” provisions because they saw them as a condemnation of them, but they did not ask for assurances because, in the words of the sources, “their existence in the military apparatus affords them immunity.”
” The sources stated that the mechanism, after receiving the military observations, will start designing the negotiating stages process, during which the military party’s observations will be transferred to the civil party in order to express an opinion, then return to the military with civilians’ observations, until reaching an acceptable consensus on the overall controversial issues, in direct negotiations or otherwise To present this directly at the conclusion of the procedure on the other ends
It is noteworthy that the past weeks have witnessed an atmosphere of optimism about the approach of reaching a solution more than a year after the political blockage that took control of the country, expressed by the UN envoy Volker Bertz, as well The main constituent of the opposition civil authority, the opposition was issued by several poles in the forces of freedom and change.
Despite all international efforts to start dialogue sessions that result in a resolution between civilians and military personnel, Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world, is still mired in political and economic recession since October 25, 2021, when the army imposed exceptional measures and the dissolution of the previous government.
The Sudanese military’s terms of reference call for a civilian president rather than a larger council for sovereignty.
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