Forming Government…a Step Awaiting Liberation of Gezira

Sudan Events – Aya Ibrahim

The liberation of Gezira State from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Militia, where the Sudanese Armed Forces began their military operations, represents the path towards achieving several military and civil goals, including the formation of a new government.
Talk about forming a new government after the RSF militia’s rebellion against the army in April of last year began to be heard a lot. Four months after the militia’s rebellion, the Vice President of the Sovereign Council, Malik Aqar, suggested the necessity of forming a government to run the state according to specific tasks. Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Yasser Al-Atta, a member of the Sovereign Council also called for forming an emergency government, a “war government.”
Loud voices
Al-Atta and Aqar’s talk about the necessity of forming a government led to the rise of some voices calling for the step, which did not find a deaf ear as it was not implemented on the ground despite a year having passed since the Sudanese crisis. Last November, the state leadership only made limited ministerial reshuffles without announcing an emergency government.
An upcoming decision
Talk arose again about the move to form a government, but the step was implemented conditionally on the liberation of the Gezira State.
Confirmed and reliable sources revealed to (Sudan Events) that the new government will be formed after the liberation of Gezira State from the desecration of the rebel RSF militia. The same sources also revealed an expected decision to be issued by the President of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan, to appoint Malik Aqar as prime minister, and indicated that the National Constituent Assembly (Parliament) will be formed from entities and personalities supporting the army in the Battle of Dignity.

Complexity of crisis
On the other hand, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Popular Congress, Dr. Mohammed Badr Al-Din said that those in charge of the country must seek to stop the war before talking about forming a government, considering that this is what the citizen needs.
In his statement to (Sudan Events) on Monday, Badr Al-Din refused to form a government and parliament in the current circumstances, considering this a lack of rationality and reasonableness in managing public affairs. He said that forming a government now means pushing the other party in the conflict to form a government in the areas it controls, which would lead to a new development in the conflict and the division of the country into two camps between the two parties to the conflict. It will also lead to further internationalization (regional and international) of the conflict and thus lead to complicating the crisis and inflaming the war and prolonging its duration, similar to the wars that have been going on for years in the Arab and African regions.
Different moves
A number of bodies have previously made several moves in order to reach the formation of a government, as a delegation from the National Mechanism to Support the Democratic Civil Transition and Cessation of the War handed over, last October, to the President of the Sovereign Council, Lieutenant General Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan, a road map that includes stopping the war and forming an emergency government, which will undertake the tasks of implementing national obligations. The National Forces Coordination says that it intends to sign a political pact with the army as part of efforts to end the political crisis and form an emergency government.
A necessary step
The leader of the Forces of Freedom and Change (Democratic Bloc), Hassan Ibrahim, stresses the necessity of forming a government to lead the wheel of work, but he said that what is most important is liberating the land from the filth of the militias, because everyone today is busy with the conduct of military operations.
Ibrahim indicated in a statement to (Sudan Events) on Monday that forming a government to manage the work system has been an urgent need since October 25, and he said that if Al-Burhan issues a decision in this direction, it is a correct decision, even though it was long overdue.