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National dialogue results limit presidential powers in Sudan

December 28, 2015 at 12:00 pm

A senior leader of the opposition Sudanese People’s Congress Party has revealed that the six national dialogue committees have gone a long way towards designing a roadmap to resolve the country’s crises. Ibrahim Al-Senussi pointed out that the dialogue results are being compiled into recommendations for approval and implementation.

Speaking to Quds Press, Al-Senussi said that consensus is the main feature of the national dialogue. The most important results in the domestic political sphere, he stressed, include an emphasis on peaceful transition and reducing presidential powers.

“The ruling system committee has recommended the formation of a transitional body that includes several parties and independents led by a prime minister, like the French system not the Americans’,” he explained. Al-Senussi noted that this government would have all authority and its mission would be to lead the country during a transitional period of at least two years that ends with the election of a Constituent Assembly.

The opposition official pointed out that the committees have proposed either to keep the president’s position as an honorary post without authority or have a neutral president, or even a governing council of five members. “The General Assembly will discuss these proposals before turning them into recommendations to be submitted to the president,” he said.

Al-Senussi added that the unity and peace committee has called for federal rule through which Sudan would be divided into states, with each state electing its executive and legislative leaders.