The Revolutionary Front of Sudan rejects the constitutional declaration document

The Sudanese Revolutionary Front rejected the current version of the constitutional declaration document signed yesterday in Khartoum between the Transitional Military Council and the forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change. The Front justified the refusal to include the vision of peace signed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in the documents of the political agreement and the constitutional declaration.

The Revolutionary Front - which includes three armed movements - accused most of the components of the forces of freedom and change of opposing the inclusion of the vision of peace agreed upon in full within the constitutional declaration. The Front said that the parties within the forces of freedom and change that obstructed the inclusion of that vision " In the Sudanese revolution. "

The Constitutional Declaration completes the document of the political agreement signed by the parties to the negotiations on July 17 and provides for the formation of a civilian military governing body overseeing the formation of a transitional civilian government and parliament for a three-year transitional period.

The Front - an essential component of the forces of freedom and change - stressed that it could not accept the constitutional document in its current form because it had gone beyond the central principles of peace and had impeded the implementation of any future peace agreement.

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The MILF said it would continue to work with African mediation, the military junta and its political allies to amend the constitutional document and political agreement by including peace issues before the final signing of the constitutional declaration on August 17.

The Front noted that the vision of peace "believes in achieving peace by addressing the roots of the Sudanese problem and working to remove historical grievances, in order to end the war by addressing the reasons that led to the carrying of arms."

The Revolutionary Front includes the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Arko Minawi, the SPLM in the north led by Malik Aqar, and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by Jibril Ibrahim.

Other opponents
For various reasons, other Sudanese political forces opposed the constitutional declaration, including the National Congress Party, the former ruling party, which said in a statement that the agreement between the military council and the forces of freedom and change "maximizes all components of political and social life, The future of the transitional period of expected political practices based on exclusion, isolation and inclusiveness. "

The party said the agreement was silent on the 2005 constitution's endorsement of the reference to Islamic law in the legislation, saying the constitutional declaration "changes the regime from presidential to parliamentary without any popular mandate through an elected parliament."

The Communist Party - a component of the forces of freedom and change - rejected the content of the constitutional document, "because it does not help" in the establishment of democratic civil government. "The Central Committee of the party that the agreement devoted the hegemony of the military, by the presence of five soldiers in the Council of sovereignty, 21 months of the transition period.