KHARTOU —
Sudan’s generals have agreed to
leave the choice of future heads of state and prime ministers to civilian
political factions, the deputy head of the military government said Friday.
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The announcement was made by paramilitary commander
Mohamed Hamdan Daglo following a Thursday meeting with army chief Abdel Fattah
Al-Burhan who led a military coup last year.
But he gave no indication of when power might be
returned to civilians amid the persistent failure of talks with the main
civilian factions since the coup.
“We renewed our previous commitment for the military
institution to exit power and leave the governance to civilian (factions),”
said Daglo, also commonly known as Hemeti, on Twitter.
He said the generals “agreed unequivocally that
civilian (factions) should choose the civilian head of the Sovereignty Council
and prime minister.”
He said that the military institution would then
“devote itself completely to its duties as stipulated in the constitution and
the law.”
Sudan has been rocked by turmoil since Burhan led a
military coup in October last year that ousted the mainstream civilian bloc
from power and triggered widespread international condemnation.
Near-weekly anti-coup protests, a spiraling economic
crisis and a rise in ethnic clashes in Sudan’s remote regions have since fed
into the deepening unrest.
In July, Burhan pledged in a televised address to
step aside and make way for Sudanese factions to agree on a civilian
government.
Civilian leaders dismissed the move as a “ruse”, and
pro-democracy protesters have maintained their rallying cry of “no negotiation,
no partnership” with the military.
Several initiatives have emerged in recent months in
attempts to resolve Sudan’s political crisis, but none has made any significant
headway.
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