On Friday, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo "Hemedti", Vice-President of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council announced his agreement with the Speaker of the Council, Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, to leave the selection of the heads of the Sovereignty Councils and Ministers to civilians.
This came in a statement published by the official news agency (SUNA), in which Hemedti revealed that he had met with Al-Burhan yesterday, Thursday.
The statement said that the two military commanders reaffirmed their commitment this summer to "the military establishment's exit from the political scene and its full disengagement from its tasks stipulated in the constitution and the law," after appointing a civilian government.
And they stressed that they unequivocally agreed that civilians should choose the heads of the Sovereignty Council and the ministers, calling on the revolutionary forces to agree to form a fully civilian government to complete the tasks of the transitional period, "in what lays the ground for a real democratic transformation."
The statement pointed out the importance of coordination and cooperation among all Sudanese "to remove the difficulties facing the transition process, in order to achieve the aspirations of the people in building a stable democratic state."
On the fourth of last July, Al-Burhan announced that the military institution would not participate in the national dialogue under the auspices of the "tripartite mechanism", declaring that space had been given to the political and revolutionary forces and national components to form a government of independent national competencies that would complete the requirements of the transitional period.
Hemedti also announced in a statement issued on July 23 that the military decided to leave the matter of governance to civilians, and that the regular forces devote themselves to performing their national tasks.
The direct dialogue process, under the auspices of the African United Nations, was launched on the eighth of last June to end the political crisis in the country.
Since October 25, 2021, Sudan has witnessed popular protests calling for the return of democratic civilian rule, and rejecting Burhan's exceptional measures, which the rejectionists consider a "military coup".
However, Al-Burhan denied the validity of his accusation of carrying out a military coup, and said that his measures aimed to "correct the course of the transitional period", and pledged to hand over power through elections or national consensus.