SRF-Agar gives lukewarm welcome to new opposition coalition

February 27, 2016 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese Revolutionary Front led by Malik Agar (SRF-Agar) Saturday gave an unenthusiastic welcome to the newly established “Future Forces of Change” (FFC), saying they are ready for a limited cooperation with them.

SPLM-N leader Malik Agar, UPFLJ chairperson Zainab Kabashi, and leader of a faction of the National Umma Party Nasreldin al-Mahdi said they are ready coordinate with the FFC on issue of national dialogue, but stressed they cannot work with the new group on issue of regime change.

“While we are welcoming the Future Forces and express our readiness to coordinate with them on the issue of equal and productive dialogue, we declare that we will not work with them – under their combination- on the issue of regime change. This combination includes some groups that cannot be trusted in an alliance to overthrow the regime,” said the statement.

In a press conference held at the premises of the Reform Now Movement (RNM), the leaders of the new group called on the opposition forces including the armed groups to join them and pointed that the entity is still in the process of being established.

The FFC includes figures like the former presidential adviser Ghazi Salah al-Din Attabani, RNM leader, al-Tayeb Mustafa, chairman of the Just Reform Movement who is known as hostile to the left parties and the SPLM-N, and Farah Agar the former candidate for governor of the National Congress Party in the Blue Nile state.

The SRF-Agar leaders said they are ready to meet the FFC in the national dialogue “to discuss a common future for our country and how to govern Sudan, and they know that we do not believe their talk about the downfall of the regime.”

In a statement on 24 February, the SRF- Gibril Ibrahim issued a statement expressed a warm welcome to the new coalition considering that they share their objective: regime change.

The National Consensus Forces (NCF) are expected to issue a statement on the FFC call for the unity of opposition groups next Monday. However several leaders of the left coalition say they are not willing to work with the alliance of Islamist opponents.

However, the former leader of the Sudanese Congress Party (SCP) Ibrahim al-Sheikh ina comment he published on Saturday, he expressed his readiness to work with the FFC group pointing that they had accepted in the NCF the Popular Congress Party of Hassan al-Turabi.

He further criticized the hostile position of Mohamed Dia’a of the Ba’ath Party and underscored that the NCF agreed to coordinate with all the opposition groups.

(ST)

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