The peace and reform initiative in Sudan, submitted by 52 public political figures, led by the Prime Minister of the April 1985 uprising, al-Jazuli, raised a controversy in the political street. While opposition and activists reacted against the government of President Omar al-Bashir, That the initiative did not provide a way out of the crisis in the country, analysts said it is the beginning of initiatives more similar to the more effective to move the current situation, stressing that the beginning of the solution, will be broken by the zero equation exists.
And detailed .. The 52 personalities of politicians and academics, in Sudan, an initiative called «peace and reform», calls for a national dialogue between the government and political forces, to look for a way out of the current crisis, under the daily demonstrations, which emerge in Sudan against the regime of President Omar Bashir, since 19 December last, the initiative provides for the formation of a transitional government, with specific tasks, for four years.
Nabil Adib, a member of the initiative, said in a press statement that "the initiative proposes the formation of a government of credible and democratic national capacities, with representation of political parties, whose tasks are to establish a decentralized democratic government based on human rights and international standards, Abolish the restrictive provisions of freedoms, allow freedom of information and expression, establish social justice, stop wars, establish judicial independence, reform foreign policy and supervise free and fair elections.
The reactions to the initiative varied. While the opposition leaders, including the "gathering of professionals", who led the demonstrations in the street in practice, refused to inform the opposition, the opposition and the opposition opposed the formulations which were said to have accepted the initiative.
A member of the 52-member initiative group, Advocate Samia al-Hashemi, announced that the initiative has reached out to the various political and civil forces, including the Sudanese Professionals Gathering, the Sudanese Congress Party, the Sudan Appeal Alliance, the National Unity Alliance, the Umma Party, the National Initiative for Change, Armed movements, all of which expressed their support for the initiative.
On the other hand, the journalist Faisal Mohammed Saleh, said that «the initiative is old, and back to four years ago, where a number of Sudanese people gathered in 2015, including politicians, academics, media and public figures, and studied the situation in the country, and decided to raise a memorandum to the Presidency calling for the formation A transitional government, and the implementation of a comprehensive national reform program to save the country from crisis, in preparation for the holding of general elections in a democratic atmosphere ».
Saleh said that the memorandum was signed by 52 people, from all walks of life in Sudanese society and political currents. He was one of them, including many national symbols, and was announced at the beginning of 2016.
He added: «did not find the note (time) ears of ears .. not from the presidency of the Republic, nor the ruling party, or other political forces». "This is a purely national effort, which took place at a certain time and in certain circumstances. It has not been successful, and it is better to look for other means," Saleh said. Saleh said, "I have no doubts about the national positions of the initiators of the initiative, and I understand their right to re-initiative and put forward any new positions, as this national effort is required of all the sons of the loyal homeland."
"But as far as I am concerned, I am a committed member of the network of Sudanese journalists, who are part of the Sudanese professional community. I am committed to all the charters and positions I have, and at this stage I do not want to stand under any other banner."
Saleh said in an explanation on his Facebook page that he did not communicate again with the sites of the memo except in other affairs, and he conveyed to those who contacted that the circumstances exceeded the note.
On the evening of 9 February 2019, a representative of the Sudanese Professionals Association received a call from Dr. Tayeb Zine El Abidine, informing him that the Peace and Reform Initiative (Group of 52) And the response of our representative was that the invitation to meet any entity or body, the decision of the assembly bodies.
"What we want to emphasize is that the gathering of Sudanese professionals did not meet the initiators, and he is committed to the Declaration of Freedom and Change, signed in January 2019, to bring down the regime unconditionally and establish a democratic transition authority."
For his part, denied the opposition party "Conference" any link to the initiative, and said official spokesman, Mohammed Hassan Arabi, on his Facebook page: "The party has no relationship with any initiative, and did not discuss outside the system of forces signed the Declaration of Freedom and Change and the call Sudan, the future of the country, with any party since the outbreak of the revolution in December 2018 ».
He added: «(Sudanese Conference) is fully committed, as a member of the alliance of the forces of the appeal of Sudan, to declare freedom and change».
The dissident leader of the Sudanese Communist Party, Dr. Shafie Khadr, also denied his acceptance of the initiative.
In turn, the Sudanese political analyst based in Cairo, Mahmoud Ibrahim, told «Emirates Today», that «the initiative of the 52 has no future, but it opens the horizon for other initiatives may be more convincing for either party to get out of the equation zero existing, the government did not budge from its position, Despite the continuation and intensity of the demonstrations, and this is an achievement, and the angry street and with him the opposition comes out every day, and this is an achievement, and the parties see the exhaustion of time. I expect the Sudan to witness more crystallized initiatives, but this will only happen in the context of dramatic field changes. "
On the same level, the Sudanese National Umma Party (SNP) declined to comment on the initiative, but its leader, Sadiq al-Mahdi, warned last week against "aborting demonstrations through an internal coup d'état or by seizing power centers within the regime."
Mahdi, in a press statement, through the page of the Umma Party on «Facebook», the attempts of power in Khartoum to abort the current demonstrations, and expected that the attempts to make the success of the revolution.
Mahdi has set four points, which he said may abort the revolutionary movement in the country, among them
The absence of a vision of the required historical alternative, as well as its failure to unite, to abandon the peaceful, as well as foreign interventions motivated by counter-revolution.
Reactions to the initiative varied, while the absolute majority of the opposition forces, led by the "gathering of professionals", who leads the demonstrations in the street in practice, refused to rally and figures opposed to the wording that was said acceptance of the initiative.