Prominent Sudanese FLC organization rejects alternative offer for dialogue in Cairo

MADRID, 22 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The organization of the Forces for Freedom and Change, instrumental in the protests that led to the fall of the dictator Omar al Bashir in 2019, have rejected an offer from Egypt to participate in a dialogue forum to resolve the political crisis in the country Right now in the hands of the military.

According to a communiqué from its central committee collected by Radio Dabanga, the FLC considers the forum, whose start date is scheduled for February 1, as a tool at the hands of "counterrevolutionary groups associated with the late Al Bashir regime" and does not coincide with the roadmap outlined in the controversial "framework agreement" announced by military leaders in December last year.

"His intention is to undermine the efforts of Sudanese society to return to a civil democracy," adds the organization, deeply fragmented in recent weeks over the offer from Egypt, which could assume a role of international mediator.

The FLC thus joins the refusal of the Baath party of Sudan -- the national branch of the Arab socialist party --, which also claims not to have received an invitation to the meeting, as well as the Movement for Justice and Equality, 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 that has caused deep divisions among the country's pro-democratic forces.

leader in October 2021 of a new coup d'état that overthrew the transitional prime minister, Abdalá Hamdok, appointed after an agreement between the previous military junta, which emerged after the fall of Al Bashir, and various civil organizations and opposition political formations.