Sudan regulates the distribution of power

Protest movement and the military have agreed on a constitutional Declaration. To initiate the democratization of the country. But the path is difficult. He requires from all sides a willingness to compromise.

Agreement: Ahmed Rabie, a spokesman for the protest movement, and the Vice-Chairman of the military Council, General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, Khartoum, 4.8. 2019

The schedule is: On Sunday, the Sudanese Pro-democracy movement and the ruling military Council agreed on a constitutional Declaration and the formation of a new government. A comprehensive agreement on the new structures of power at 17. August will be signed. A day later, a “sovereign Council is to be formed”, the six civilians and five military members. This is to replace the ruling military Council and the formation of a new government monitor. 20. August will be the transitional head of government, and eight days later, the Cabinet members will be determined.

Both sides expressed relief over the agreement and optimistic about the future of the country. With the agreement opened a “new Chapter in the history of the Sudan,” said General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, the Deputy Chairman of the military Council. “We have started the negotiations as a Partner, and go out as a Team out of them. The national will has triumphed. It is a win-win Situation,” Daglo, is the real strong man in the ranks of the military.

No “democracy without peace,”

Satisfied representatives of the protest movement expressed. Especially because they were able to prevail in one point: It will give a “fair and transparent” inquiry into the bloody unrest of recent weeks, said Omar al-Dagir, one of the leaders of the protesters. Alone at the beginning of June 136 protesters were killed in violent clashes with the military, a few days before the now closed agreement, five other protesters were shot and killed. “Without peace there will be no democracy,” said Al-Dagir, referring to the deaths. The legal processing of the military violence was a Central point in the negotiations. This is solved now, so Ebtisam Senhouri, one of the negotiators of the protesters.

In the case of unrest in the Sudan have come in the past few weeks, over 130 people have been killed

Challenges of the future

The now imminent construction of a new, democratic Sudan, it is important to take into account all of the stakeholders, it said in the commentary of the pan-Arab newspaper “Al-Quds al-araby”. “Civil rule and consolidation of democracy require the participation of all the civil forces. Otherwise, democracy is just the mask of a new despotic regime.”

In addition, the Sudan expert Annette Weber from the Berlin science and politics Foundation (SWP), it was the fact that the two partners protest movement and the military – agreed on joint responses to major political challenges. “The rule of law, security, economy: these are the most urgent points. Differences to do in dealing with them, both within the military Council as well as within the civil society,” Weber said in the Interview. To now course there are very different assessments. But the clarification of all outstanding issues was essential to the democratization of the country forward.

Representatives of the protest movement with the agreements concluded satisfied

Responsibility on both sides

That it comes to that, not long ago identified yet, it is said in a comment of the magazine “Arab weekly”. “Regardless of how much all sides will seek to distribute the responsibility, there will be points where you will not be able to agree and which are likely to be difficult to control. This will make it difficult to maintain peace and stability.”

The success of the a long time, very tough negotiations, “Arab weekly,” more, be attributed quite substantially to the mediation of foreign actors. Support the “African Union” (AU) had a negative impact. The mediation was helpful, but the Sudanese had to find in the long term to the agreement. Annette Weber is skeptical: “It is simply not yet decided whether Sudan actually moves in the long term in the direction of democratization and transparency of its policy, or whether, in fact, but the old networks – with a couple of new faces – again, the rudder will take over.”

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Sudanese people celebrate the Constitution, Declaration of

Autonomy and political culture

The mid-August start of negotiations will not be to decide and only on the composition of the Cabinet. There is much more at stake, namely the political culture of the country and its autonomy. “If the structures that remain, will be the Sudan from foreign funding dependent,” says Annette Weber. “The Gulf States especially. Should renew the Sudan, but economically and politically, seriously, you will no longer be the most important Partner in Khartoum’s.”

Their Support is likely to be the two conservative Gulf States by political influence pay. If it were up to you, would the Sudan, a conservative state led with a firmer Hand, and with little room for the concerns of the civilian population. Essentially, it is, but on two points, says the Sudanese Journalist Osman Mirghani in the DW-interview. On the foreign policy skill of the new government. And on the other, whether both sides – the Sudan, as well as the Gulf States – of political pragmatism, forward. “If both sides realize what their relations using the most, will also find this in their relationships,” said Mirghani, the sat in the spring of this year, due to its critical reporting, for a good seven weeks in custody.


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