Sudan’s Popular Leader Calls For Interim Government In
Khartoum
Sudanese News Updates
13 April 2009
Khartoum - The opposition party of
influential Sudanese politician Hassan al-Turabi has
called for a transitional government to ensure that
presidential and parliamentary elections due in
February 2010 are free and fair.
The Popular Congress made the call at a news
conference on Saturday to launch its platform for the
elections.
The elections, expected to be the freest in almost 25
years in Sudan, are the centrepiece of a 2005 peace
deal that ended over two decades of north-south civil
war.
The party said that it had not decided whether to
contest the elections and that it would now discuss
its platform with other political parties. Speaking to
journalists later, Turabi, 77, hinted he may be too
old to run for the presidency.
"It is better always to present new people, new
generations for new times. If you are a very wise
people, sit back and write books that guide us, that
inspire us, or lecture to us... But don't come
yourself (as the candidate). You waste a lot of your
energy. I don't have that much energy," Turabi said.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is under
pressure over the conflict in Darfur, where
international experts say 200 000 people have died in
almost six years of ethnic and politically driven
fighting.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) last month
issued an arrest warrant for Bashir on accusations of
war crimes in Darfur, where Khartoum says 10 000
people have died.
An Islamist intellectual who helped bring Bashir to
power but later fell out with him, Turabi was jailed
in January after calling on Bashir to hand himself
over to the ICC. He was released last month.
Turabi was once close to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden and the government alleges he is connected to
the Justice and Equality Movement, one of the main
rebel groups in Darfur. - Reuters
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