Popular Congress Party calls for national dialogue in Sudan

The Popular Congress Party (PCP) is “still convinced that an internal Sudanese dialogue constitutes the best means to resolve the political crises in the country”.

At a press conference in Khartoum on Sunday, PCP Political Secretary Kamal Abdelsalam, demanded from the National Congress Party (NCP) to provide guarantees to enable the participation of “all opposition forces” in the dialogue, to be held within Sudan.

He announced that his party will not participate in the new Sudanese government, to be formed after the announcement of the general election results on 27 April, and has suspended its cooperation with the NCP.

The party, founded by Dr Hassan El Turabi, the “intellectual architect” behind the military coup by Omar Al Bashir in 1989, did not participate in the 2015 presidential and parliamentary election. Dr Bashir Adam Rahama, PCP Foreign Relations Secretary, described the election to Radio Dabanga on 9 April as “a one-horse race by the ruling NCP”.

He stressed that a broad national dialogue is to be held within the country, as “earlier foreign interventions failed to bring about successful solutions”.