National Congress Party
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The National Congress Party , also National Congress , English National Congress Party ; Arabic المؤتمر الوطني, DMG al-Muʾtamar al-Waṭanī , abbreviation NCP; is a political party and ruling party in Sudan until the fall of 2019 .
The long-time chairman of the party was the field marshal and state president of the country Omar al-Bashir . On March 1, 2019, al-Bashir handed over the chairmanship to his previous deputy Ahmed Harun .
The party runs its own newspaper, the party newspaper National Congress . The party's ideology, implemented with authoritarian methods, is a strict interpretation of Islam with the aim of Islamizing society and Arab nationalism .
history
After the 1986 election, a coalition government led by Sadiq al-Mahdi took power. Hasan at-Turabi's Islamist party, the National Islamic Front (NIF), had a 20 percent share in this coalition . In 1989 al-Bashir took power in a bloodless coup with the support of Turabi. The new government was quickly recognized by Egypt and other neighboring Arab and African states. Al-Bashir initially ruled with a Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). This group was disbanded in 1993 and al-Bashir was formally appointed as president. In the March 1996 elections, at-Turabi became the spokesman for the National Assembly, and his allies received most of the ministries. Then there was a break between the two politicians. The NIF split into the National Congress Party (NCP) from al-Bashir and the Popular Congress Party (PCP) from at-Turabi. He was now aggressively pursuing a policy against al-Bashir and was subsequently dismissed from the government after the emergency was imposed in 1999.
The National Congress Party was and is involved in the regional civil wars in the country: the civil war in South Sudan , the conflict in East Sudan and the ongoing Darfur conflict . Human rights violations in the affected areas were often committed by the NCP. The Islamic legislation ( Shari'a ) introduced in 1983 with the September Laws was tightened by the NCP in 1991. The NPC won the elections on December 13 and 22, 2000 again and received an absolute majority of the seats.
In November 2019, the Sovereign Council and the civil interim government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok decided to dissolve the party and confiscate its property.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sudan's president hands over the running of the country's ruling party to his deputy. BBC News, March 1, 2019
- ↑ Abdel Salam Sidahmed: Politics and Islam in Contemporary Sudan. Curzon Press, Richmond 1997, pp. 189 f
- ↑ Sudan passed law to crush Bashir's party. ORF , November 29, 2019, accessed on the same day.