Sudan’s PCP speaks of a ‘secret’ plan to topple regime

[Elisabeth Janaina]

Sudan’s PCP speaks of a ‘secret’ plan to topple regime

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July 22, 2013, (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s opposition Popular Congress Party
(PCP) declared that it has embarked on a secret strategic plan to
overthrow the regime while a senior official from the umbrella
opposition organization, National Consensus Forces (NCF) stressed that
the 100-day plan to topple the regime did not fail.

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Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi of the Popular Congress
Party (PCP) (REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

Last month, the NCF unveiled its 100-day plan which is comprised of
several stages including holding seminars in public arenas and
attempting to get citizens to take the streets.

The PCP’s political secretary Kamal Omer said at a news conference on
Monday that the NCF will evaluate the 100-day scheme following the
holy month of Ramadan to determine the date of the popular uprising.

He urged the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) to accept the
transitional period and underscored that this would be the ideal
option for change but cautioned that it will not allow government
officials escape accountability.

Omer also revealed that the PCP leadership meeting which ended on
Saturday has affirmed its commitment to popular uprising as a tool for
overthrowing the government as well as approving the strategic
relationship with the NCF.

He noted that the meeting has unanimously renewed confidence in the
secretary general, Hassan Al-Turabi, to hold his post until the next
political convention and stressed that the PCP will launch a “more
compact” secret scheme to topple the regime.

Omer said that the secret scheme was approved by the PCP’s leadership
and all branches were commissioned to enforce it and activate the
mobilization committees.

He strongly denied discontent among PCP members with the party’s
performance, saying that the leadership meeting emphasized the need to
build strong relationships with the NCF and the rebel Sudan
Revolutionary Front (SRF).

In a separate issue, the opposition Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party’s
leadership member, Ali Al-Rayah al-Sanhouri, has denied the failure of
the 100-day plan saying that it was not only intended to toppling the
regime but also organize the NCF.

According to the pro-government al-Rayaam daily Monday issue,
Al-Sanhouri declared that the NCF will launch another 100-day scheme
prior to the end of the current one in order to intensify opposition
activities and mobilization efforts, saying that the NCF can’t fix a
date for the regime fall.

“If the regime considers the NCF ineffective, it shouldn’t ban its
public rallies”, said Sanhouri.

The spokesperson for the NCP, Yassir Youssif, for his part, described
the NCF’s 100-day scheme as a “complete failure” and stressed that
there were disagreements about it within the NCF factions, and called
the opposition to get ready for the upcoming elections in 2015.

He was referring to the opposition National Umma Party (NUP) which
distanced itself from the 100-day plan and announced instead its own
initiative to change the regime through collecting a million
signatures and organizing sit-ins in public squares and other places.

Last year, leaders of the NCF signed the Democratic Alternative
Charter (DAC) which unequivocally adopts the goal of regime change
through “peaceful means” while outlining the basis of how the country
should be governed afterward.

The text of the DCA adopts the use of “peaceful mass struggle” in the
forms of civil disobedience and popular uprising to topple the regime
and then establishes an interim government in which all political
forces will be represented to rule the country for three years until a
new constitution is installed and elections are held.

(ST)