News from Al-Madinah: After the tripartite mechanism (the United Nations, the African Union and Igad) in Sudan expressed its hope for the end of the consultations between the civil and military component within two weeks, some conditions demanded by the army leaders began to be revealed, in order to agree to the draft of the transitional constitution proposed by the Bar Association in the country.
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.
Support Personnel
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.”
Constitution of lawyers
According to the sources, the mechanism will begin designing the negotiation stages after receiving the military observations. During this time, the military party’s observations will be transferred to the civil party so that they can express an opinion, and they will then return to the military with the civilians’ observations, until they reach an acceptable agreement on the major contentious issues, either through direct negotiations or another method. To present this directly at the conclusion of the procedure on the other ends
It is interesting that the UN envoy Volker Bertz and others have voiced hope over the past few weeks about the strategy for finding a settlement more than a year after the political blockade that took control of the country. 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 parameters call for a civilian president rather than a larger sovereign council.
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