Government’s parties welcome Mahdi’s call to support the army
June 3, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Council of the National Unity Government Parties (CNUGP), welcomed a call made by the former prime minister and leader of the opposition Umma National Party (UNP) to support the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).
Sadiq Al-Mahdi last Saturday reiterated his rejection to the use of arms to change the current regime, distancing himself from the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), and called for a peaceful transition towards a democratic regime in Sudan.
The opposition leader who was speaking, days after the recapture of South Kordofan’s Abu Kershola from the rebel groups called to support SAF as “a national institution” to defend the country.
He further called to open the army for all the Sudanese and appealed on the “Ansars” members of his party to join the Sudanese army.
CNUGP secretary general, Aboud Jabir Saeed, hailed the position of UNP leader, describing it as “a positive call based on the duties of citizenship that are included in the Constitution”.
He further urged the Sudanese political forces to agree on national issues in order to uphold the value of national solidarity, to meet national challenges, and confront “foreign conspiracies being hatched against the homeland”.
The CNUGP is a political body supposed to coordinate the political positions of the forces participating in the national government which is dominated by the ruling National Congress Party.
Two opposition parties, UNP of Sadiq Al-Mahdi and Popular Congress Party (PCP) of Hassan Al-Turabi, condemned last April attacks in Kordofan region, constituency of their supporters.
Al-Mahdi last week called on the rebel groups member of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front to renounce violence and military action and to join the political and civil forces in the country to establish a new regime through political means rather than military action.
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