An Invitation To Participate in The Basic Order of SDUP Organization

Quote: (C) The Sudanese people – since independence – have suffered a great deal and have been patient even more. They have not yet found the public organization that can shoulder their worries and realize their aspirations in a dignified life and a renewing effective leadership. It is crystal clear that the main problem of the Sudan which - if salvaged, will, in effect, solve all its problems - is the crisis of governance: how the country is to be ruled and how to choose those who will rule. This will not be possible without the establishment of a standing fundamental law to be enacted through the participation of all the factions of the nation represented by the different institutions of the civil society, inter alia, the political parties, trade unions, independent entities such as the intelligentsia, the academia and the local leaders It goes without saying that the so-called “independence generation” – with all due respect and consideration to what they achieved during the national liberation movement has, unfortunately, failed in the accomplishment of the tasks assigned to them viz. The post-independence duties: the creation of the constitution, the establishment of the democratic bases for the realization of social justice, and the promotion of the concept of national unity. This is why– since the uprising of the citizens in the south of the country and the beginning of the era of the military movements to seize power in November 1958, followed by the glorious Revolution of October in 1964, and then the coup in May 1969, followed by the uprising of April 1985, and lastly the coup detat of 1989 - the history books have recorded that the immature democracy which was practised between 1956 and 1989 has been aborted three times and was given the total of eleven years divided between three periods punctuated by eras of military rule. This means that the Sudanese people have chafed under the yoke of military juntas and dictatorship two third of the period between independence (1956) and 1989. Then the present government came to power by the will of force and it is still ruling in iron hand, although it has made available a margin of freedom that can be denied only by the sheer stubborn. Material evidence of this is the permission to establish this Organization. However, the Social Democratic Unionists clearly declare that our civilizational heritage and our African psychological mood absolutely reject the idea that freedom is a grant from any one person or any one group that rules without the will of the people. Man is born free. The Social Democratic Unionist Party shall strive – through all peaceful, non-violent and constitutional ways – for holding a constituent congress in order to formulate and pass the constitution.