The spokesman for Sudan’s pro-democracy Civilian Democratic Alliance said Tuesday that coup leader Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan’s move to name a prime minister has “no constitutional or legal basis” and is designed only to persuade foreign governments that a political transition is under way.
Bakri el-Jack told the UAE-based news site Eram News that the 2019 Constitutional Charter — signed after the uprising that toppled longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir — expired 39 months after it was enacted. Amendments imposed after Burhan’s October 2021 coup, he said, reduced the prime minister’s office to a “mere executive secretariat” with no real authority over state resources or decision-making.
Politically, el-Jack said, the appointment seeks to burnish the General al-Burhan-led junta’s image with the African Union and regional states in hopes of regaining Sudan’s suspended AU membership.
“This political theater will neither end the war nor improve people’s lives,” he said, adding that only a nationwide cease-fire and an inclusive national dialogue can move the country forward.
