Sudan’s opposition Freedom and Change Alliance, on Thursday, agreed to nominate Abdullah Hamdook as the country’s prime minister in a transitional government, which is set to replace the three-decade rule of ousted President Omar al-Bashir, reported Reuters.
Sudan’s sovereign council will be sworn in on Monday. It will be split between civilian and military members but led by the military for the first 21 months.
According to a constitutional declaration agreed by the ruling military council and opposition alliance earlier this month, the sovereign council will appoint the prime minister based on the nomination from the opposition alliance, the Forces of Freedom and Change.
Hamdook, who stepped down last year as deputy executive secretary of the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa, is due to be formally selected on August 20. In September 2018, the now-ousted President Omar al-Bashir named Hamdook as the minister of finance, but he refused to accept the nomination.
He will serve as the prime minister for the period of the transition, which will last for 39 months, after which elections will be organized. He is expected to appoint his cabinet in the week afterward.
“The structures of the Freedom and Change Alliance concerned with formation of the expected transitional authority have agreed on Abdullah Hamdook to assume the post of prime minister during the transitional period which extends for three years and three months,” said the Sudanese Professionals Association, the group that spearheaded the protest movement, said in a statement.
As per sources, the coalition also nominated Mohammed Al-Hafiz Mahmoud for the position of Deputy Prime Minister and Abdul Qadir Mohammed Ahmed as Chief Justice.
The opposition alliance and the military council are expected to sign the final deal concerning the political and constitutional declarations on Saturday, Aug. 17.
