The Forces for Freedom and Change organization, instrumental in the protests that led to the fall of dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, have rejected an offer by Egypt to participate in a dialogue forum to resolve the political crisis in the country, now in the hands of the military.
According to a statement from its central committee picked up by Radio Dabanga, the FLC considers the forum, scheduled to start on February 1, as a tool at the hands of «counter-revolutionary groups associated with the late Al Bashir regime» and does not coincide with the roadmap outlined in the controversial «framework agreement» announced by the military leaders in December last year.
«Their intention is to undermine the efforts of Sudanese society to return to a civilian democracy,» adds the organization, deeply fragmented in recent weeks over the offer of Egypt, which could assume a role of international mediator.
The FLC thus joins the refusal of the Sudanese Baath party — the national affiliate of the Arab socialist party — which also claims not to have received an invitation to the meeting, as well as the Justice and Equality Movement, led by Jibril Ibrahim.
All these groups had signed the so-called «framework agreement» proposed by the country’s leader, the coup leader Abdelfatá al Burhan, a pact which has caused deep divisions among the country’s pro-democracy forces.
In October 2021, the leader of a new coup d’état overthrew the transitional prime minister, Abdullah Hamdok, appointed after an agreement between the previous military junta, which emerged after the fall of Al Bashir, and various civilian organizations and opposition political formations.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
