By RFPosted on 02-07-2019Modified on 02-07-2019 at 00:50

The transitional military council in Sudan continues to blow hot and cold. It is once again encroaching on several points of the agreements already signed and wants to start negotiations again. After declaring on Sunday that he has responded to the joint Ethiopian-African Union mediation, here he is who claims to occupy permanently the presidency of the future sovereign council. According to the agreements and the joint initiative, the Sovereign Council was supposed to be made up of 15 members, 7 opposition civilians, 7 soldiers and a neutral civil personality. As for the presidency of this sovereign council, it will be rotating.

For the Transitional Military Council, there are still adjustments to be made. Point of contention of this mediation: the question of the presidency of the sovereign council. While the African Union and Ethiopia propose a rotating presidency, a proposal validated by the opposition, the CMT wants it to be permanent.

Another point of contention is the length of the transition period before the organization of elections. According to the mediation, this period must be three years. The military council proposes only two.

" We have conveyed our point of view to mediation, " said a statement from the WCL, released on Monday, stating that these are " ideas for future negotiations ."

No, replies the opposition which rejects any possibility of new negotiations on these points, stating: " it is to take or leave. "

" The military council continues its usual business of negotiations: accept, refuse, agree, disagree. He said that he accepted the proposal of the joint mediation as a basis for negotiations, and that for us it is not acceptable at all because it is a complete proposal sent by the two mediators to both parties to accept or refuse, believes Rashid Said, a spokesman for the Forces for Freedom and Change. As a force for freedom and change, we accepted despite the reservations we have on a number of points. It is up to the military council today to accept or refuse. Considering that the joint proposal represents a basis for negotiations, it is a way for the military council to gain time, to come back again to its agreement that it had given to joint mediation and I think that with this attitude, the council military wants to end this joint mediation. "

The reaction comes in the aftermath of massive new demonstrations suppressed in several cities of Sudan . The protest calls for civil disobedience on July 14.

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