NCP leadership office to complete its membership next week
October 31, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party’s (NCP) newly elected leadership office will hold its first meeting next week to complete its membership.
According to the NCP’s bylaws, the Shura (consultation) Council last week elected 30 members for the leadership office and the party chairman and Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir should add 15 others.
Several renounced figures, including Amin Hassan Omer, Qutbi al-Mahdi and Badria Sulieman, lost their positions in the leadership office, while historic leaders such as Suad al-Fatih, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Tahir and Ali Osman Taha maintained their membership.
The leadership office member and minister of agriculture, Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, said Bashir will submit 15 names to complete the number to 45 members.
He told the pro-government Sudan Media Center (SMC) that president’s list will include new names that would enhance the political and organisational mobility within the NCP’s institutions, saying the NCP is considered a non-traditional party that enjoys an active base.
The head of NCP legal secretary, al-Fadel Haj Suleiman, told Sudan Tribune last week that the leadership office will discard the party’s nominees for governors in the next year election and recommend that the president of the republic appoint state governors rather than elect them.
He advocated the move, saying it “does not break the principles of democratic governance because an elected president can select the governors who are accountable before elected regional assemblies that can recommend relieving them”.
The NCP regional conventions held in the 17 Sudanese states selected 51 people, each state submitted three nominees. The party’s leadership has to pick one of the three to run for governor in the gubernatorial race.
Last week, the general convention of the ruling party selected Bashir as its candidate for the presidential election scheduled for April 2015, with Kabashour Koko selected as the chairman of the national Shura Council.
(ST)