S. Sudan’s Kiir to form all-inclusive cabinet in July: aide
March 22, 2015 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir is currently consulting different political parties and opinion leaders in the country in preparation for the formation of an all-inclusive government in July, an aide told Sudan Tribune on Sunday.
“There is a need to move this country forward in accordance with the national slogan of one nation, one president. The president will in July after the amendment of the constitution will form an all-inclusive government. All the stakeholders will be represented”, stressed the presidential aide on decentralisation and inter-government linkage.
According to Mawien, South Sudan’s proposed new coalition government will include other political parties not in the government.
“Its [cabinet] objectives will [be to] work for peace, unite internal front, promote forgiven and reconciliation and pursue lasting peace,” further disclosed the aide to the South Sudanese leader.
“It will also work to consolidate cohesion, building consensus, security and order,” he added.
The country’s lawmakers, Mawien further said, will soon start deliberations on proposed areas of the constitution to be amended so as to in avoid a possible power vacuum and constitutional crisis likely to occur when government’s term expires in July.
He however urged citizen to support the incumbent president in and his government in their search for peace and restoration of law and order in some parts of the country currently under rebels’ control.
Last month, members of South Sudan cabinet agreed to extend, through parliament, the mandate of the president and the national legislature for an additional two years.
South Sudan’s National Elections Commission had initially set 30 June as election date.
(ST)