Khartoum -Al-Yurae- The Sudanese Resistance Committees on Wednesday adopted the final version of the “People’s Power” charter prepared by the resistance committees in the capital Khartoum during the past period as an overall political understanding of the primitive conventions and purposes dominating the glorious December revolution that toppled the regime of President Al-Bashir and included most of the demands of the populations, which called for in their thundering demonstrations in all cities of Sudan and represents a starting point for the political foundations of the administration in the uprising era, and the charter of a road map to run the country during the period Transition to free and fair general elections by the end of the transition puts Sudan on the threshold of democratic civil rule.
The committees leading the protest movement prepared the charter during the past period and subjected it to review and development after receiving the observations of political forces and revolutionary entities, while the Charter, reviewed by the committees at a press conference in Khartoum, states that “the military coup will be resisted until it is overthrown, and reject any calls for negotiation or dialogue with the existing authorities”.
The Charter also provided for “the abolition of the existing constitutional document, the establishment of new constitutional arrangements based on the ‘Charter of the Authority of the People’, the formation of a transitional government of the signatories of the Charter for a period of two years, the formation of a legislative council representing the forces of the revolution, which will adopt the executive government and appoint a prime minister of independent competencies that are biased towards the revolution, and the Council will enact laws, ratify international treaties and establish commissions”.
According to the Charter, “all transitional governance structures are formed under the supervision of the Sudanese Resistance Committees”, and the charter included “the establishment of elections at the end of the transitional period after the achievement of comprehensive peace, the return of displaced persons and refugees to their areas of origin and the preparation of population censuses,” stressing “the need for the state to stand at one distance from all Sudanese components of multiple races, cultures, and religions.”
The charter called for “a review of the Juba peace agreement and addressing the shortcomings that have been similar, with the establishment of a special peace commission formed by professionals and stakeholders to manage the file, in order to establish a national peace conference for Sudanese-Sudanese peace starting from within the camps of displaced persons to address the issue and include all in its deliberations,” stressing “the need to reform the security and military system, through a specialized commission established by military personnel arbitrarily who was dismissed by the former regime to ensure its professionalism, and the formation of a unified professional army under the leadership of the Prime Minister through a minister of Defence, disbanding armed militias and the rapid support forces and reintegrating and demobilizing armed movement forces.”
Fourteen coordinations committees from across the state signed the charter, details of which were announced at a press conference yesterday afternoon, after a long wait, amid aspirations to contribute to efforts to resolve the current political crisis in Sudan, and the future of governance.
After reading the text of the charter, at the beginning of the mass press conference and answering questions from journalists, representatives and representatives of the coordinations continued on the podium to put their signatures, and it was remarkable that an injured young protester Mohid Faisal, who had his leg amputated after being injured during a demonstration, signed a representative of the committees of Khartoum East.
The resistance committees excluded from signing their charter all the political forces that participated in the coup of June 30, 1989 until the moment of his fall, along with the forces that supported the October 25 coup, and the forces that stood with it. The political and civil forces that participated in the negotiations that led to the production of partnership with the Transitional Military Council and the political settlement with it were required to sign the Charter, in a veiled reference to the forces of freedom and change, to issue a written self-criticism of the approach on which estimates of their entry into the negotiation and partnership experiences were based, to submit systematic reviews of their political practice during the transitional period, and to publish it publicly, before signing.
The Charter also required political organizations and armed struggle forces to sign individually, but not to accept the signature in the name of an alliance, and to have the signature binding and a political reference to be consulted, in the event of a divergence of views by any of the leaders of the signed components.
The charter contains 13 clauses, which provide for “the rejection of any calls for direct, or indirect negotiation with the putschists, the continuation of peaceful resistance, through our tried tools, the work to bring down the October 25th coup, hold those involved in civil and military forces accountable, abolish the constitutional document and create constitutional status through an interim constitutional declaration, based on the Charter of the People’s Authority, and review the agreements concluded and decrees issued since April 11, 2019.
The Charter outlined a vision for building transitional governance structures, drafting a transitional constitution that recognizes the country’s cultural, religious and ethnic pluralism, and that the State should stand at one distance from all. It also provides for the formation of a transitional legislative council of the living revolutionary forces, nameing, appointing and adopting a prime minister of independent national competencies aligned with the revolution, forming an independent executive government to be submitted to the Council for leave, as well as the formation of state legislative councils and the formation of independent commissions.
He stressed ensuring accountability and impunity, prosecuting all those involved in human rights violations, war crimes and genocide, from independence to June 30, 1989, after April 11, 2019, linking transitional justice with the peace process, reforming and restructuring justice bodies, reforming and rebuilding regular forces, and opening investigations into various crimes and conflicts.
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The Charter required that all security and military agencies, and their reform procedures be subordinated to the executive and legislative powers, that the security and intelligence service be rebuilt and limited to collecting and classifying information, that the police and their powers be restructured to ensure their professionalism and independence, that the armed forces be restructured and that a unified national professional army, which plays its role in protecting the people, the Constitution and the country’s borders, as well as abolishing the post of Commander-in-Chief, and that the Prime Minister be the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, disband militias and rapid support, enforce mergers, demobilization and disarmament, After the signing of a comprehensive peace agreement.
The Charter also includes reforms in the human rights and justice system, the civil service and an economic system that balances public debt with negotiating references with international financial institutions, establishing a social welfare system, whose mandate is imposed by the Ministry of Finance on public funds, including those of the armed forces.
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The following is a list of coordinations that signed immediately after the press conference:
Coordination of the Southern Omdurman Resistance Committees,
Committees of the neighborhoods of Umbada,
The centrality of Dar es Salaam Umbada
Coordination of Karari resistance committees,
Old Umdurman’s coordination,
Al-Arbain coordination, Al-Murada ,Al-Feel and Abassia
Khartoum West Coordination,
The centralities of Mount Awalais,
Coordination of the kalacles and south of Khartoum,
Khartoum East Coordination,
Khartoum South,
Coordination of Haj Yusuf,
Coordination east of the Nile South,
The Committees of The Neighborhoods of Haj Yusuf,
The Committees of The Neighborhoods of Bahri Khartoum North
