Last week two top officials in the civilian and military components of the Sudan’s three-year transitional government have admitted the failure in running the transitional period.
According to news articles, leading figure in the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) alliance, Adil Khalfallah stated that the present government which is supposed to include independent competencies failed to do its job, calling for an immediate reshuffle to pave the way for the formation of a government that include experts with clear political loyalties to allow accountability and to obtain the support from their partisan bases in its programmes.
On the other hand, President of the Sovereign Council and Chief of the army, 1st Lt. Gen. Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan said, while addressing an army training session, that the transitional council has failed to respond to the aspirations of the people and of the revolution.
However, the failure of running the transitional period doesn’t need more testimonies, but the question that poses itself is what after those testimonies?
The failure of the transitional period has several complicated reasons on top of which is the fragile partnership and the absence of confidence among the partners.
We believe that as long as the two partners admitted the failure, they should be courageous and sit round a negotiations table to assess the experience instead of the present pain killing practices which has become the mechanism of running the state.
The leaders of the two components of the transitional period must face bravely the evaluation of the partnership, otherwise the failure will continue for the remaining period of the transition.
Obviously, the government with its military and civilian components failed to achieve any progress in the issues of economy, justice, but on the contrary the situation is deteriorating day after day.
It is high time to start with an honest assessment conference between the military and civilian components as a kick-off point for the aspired reform in the executive and sovereign bodies.