{"id":176512,"date":"2018-04-12T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/pcp-reform-now-movement-deny-participation-in-meeting-to-re-nominate-sudan-s-al-bashir-for-re-election-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T18:18:00","slug":"pcp-reform-now-movement-deny-participation-in-meeting-to-re-nominate-sudan-s-al-bashir-for-re-election-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/pcp-reform-now-movement-deny-participation-in-meeting-to-re-nominate-sudan-s-al-bashir-for-re-election-in-2020","title":{"rendered":"PCP, Reform Now Movement, deny participation in meeting to re-nominate Sudan\u2019s Al Bashir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudan’s Popular Congress Party (PCP) has denied participation in a meeting at the headquarters of the ruling National Congress Party to re-nominate President Omar Al Bashir for the 2020 elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Amin Abdelrazig, the political secretary of the PCP told Radio Dabanga that the party had not been invited to any meeting with the deputy president of the National Congress, Dr Faisal Hassan, nor had it participated in any meeting to discuss the issue of nomination of Al Bashir<\/p>\n

He said that the institutions of the PCP had not yet taken a decision on the position of the party to re-nominate Al Bashir for a new presidential term and stressed the adherence of his party to the outcome of the dialogue.<\/p>\n

Reform Now Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Reform Now Movement has also denied its participation in a meeting to re-nominate Al Bashir in the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Hassan Osman Rizig, the deputy head of the Reform Now Movement told Radio Dabanga that the movement now had not participated in any meeting and described what has been reported as false.<\/p>\n

He renewed the movement's adherence to the Constitution, which stipulates that the president should not be nominated for more than two terms explaining that Al Bashir’s term ends in 2020 and there is no room for re-nomination<\/p>\n

Government spokesman Ahmed Bilal Osman announced that the parties of the national reconciliation government had been modest during a meeting on Monday to re-nominate President Omar Al Bashir in the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n

Information Minister Ahmed Bilal said that “after a meeting held by the political forces forming the national reconciliation government at the headquarters of the National Congress Party on Monday agreed that the implementation of the outputs of the national dialogue can be completed in the presence of the basic guarantor of the dialogue who is the President of the Republic.<\/p>\n

“They declared agreement to re-nominate him for the post in the upcoming elections.”<\/p>\n