(4) Decisive challenges facing the new Sudanese Prime Minister

By Al-Sadiq Al-Raziqi– A number of challenges facing the new Sudanese Prime Minister in Sudan, Dr. Kamel Al -Tayeb Idris, who was appointed on Monday. His choice came after a long labor that started since October 2021, and all of the attention was heading right and facilitating in search of a suitable person in accordance with the requirements of reality and the standards of the Sovereign Council, that the Prime Minister be one of the independent figures and closer to technical technocrats.

Dr. Idris would not have been in his position under complex Sudanese conditions and conditions and a regional and international environment, had it not been for pressing political considerations, and it was very sensitive internal accounts, which suggested that it was caught on other other candidates and pushed it towards the hot chair in Sudan.

With his legal background and diplomatic experience, and his work for two consecutive sessions as General Manager of the United Nations WIPO Organization (WIPO), Dr. Kamel Idris has been known in the Sudanese political circles for nearly two decades, as the candidate most present in the nomination lists for this position or for the position of Foreign Minister, since the emergence of his political star during the era of President Omar Al -Bashir.

It was not known to many of the Sudanese political club’s pioneers until after its rare meeting between Dr. Hassan Al -Turabi and Mr. Al -Sadiq Al -Mahdi, may God have mercy on them, in 1999, which is the first meeting between Al -Turabi, the then Speaker of Parliament and the godfather of the ruling regime at the time, and Al -Sadiq al -Mahdi, who is the most prominent Sudanese opposition leaders at that time.

Dr. Kamel Idris went to the world of politics prominently by hosting and arranged for that meeting at his home in Geneva, and he considered himself a contributor to bringing the Sudanese cohesion and seeking national reconciliation between the various political parties, and he obtained an entry card to the political track, and he became one of the knights of betting, whenever an opportunity to appoint in an advanced and prominent position, and the eyes did not mistake him.

Since he entered the Politics Circuit, Dr. Kamel has not been absent from the Sudanese scene, and he was preserved for him during the Bashir era after the rebellion exploded in Darfur in 2003, and the issuance of decisions from the International Criminal Court (Public Prosecution) in 2007 against a number of senior Sudanese officials, then against the president himself, when he took the right moment, and arranged secret meetings in Geneva between the Minister of State for the Sudanese justice at the time (then the Minister of State and the Minister of State and the Foreign Minister Later), with the Attorney General of the International Criminal Court.

Idris maintains a distinct relationship with Luis Moreno Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, who are colleagues at an American university, one of which is the director of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the second is the ICC General Prosecutor (ICC). These meetings between Ocampo and the Sudanese official reached thirty -six joint meetings between the two sides, the government of Sudan and the court, but they did not succeed in settling the Sudanese issue.

In that period, the man played other roles, until the end of his second session in the organization, to devote himself to political activity. His name was presented more than once when President Al -Bashir, after the National Dialogue Conference, adopted the recommendation of the conference to allocate the position of Prime Minister and separated the executive body from the sovereign authority, and his candidacy was always colliding with obstacles that prevented him from appointing him to the site that prepared for him at the time and prepared. He was also nominated as a foreign minister, but he was not successful.

When the demonstrations erupted in December 2018 against President Al -Bashir and his government, Dr. Kamel came out with a position hostile to President Al -Bashir and his authority, stood in support of the demonstrations and movements, and he had visual statements and records supporting the demonstrators.

After the fall of the rescue system, Raja, Kamel Idris, was again nominated for the Prime Minister, but the left factions and other groups in the forces of freedom and change and external destinations that opposed his candidacy, preferring Dr. Abdullah Hamdouk coming from the position of Vice -Chairman of the African Economic Committee of the United Nations (UNECA). Dr. Kamel was absent after the nomination of Hamduk, amid the dust and crowd of that period, but he kept attending the wing reduction in the atmosphere of the transitional period and its noise.

His candidacy returned again after the measures that overthrew the forces of freedom and change from power on October 25, 2021, and the departure of Abdullah Hamdouk Dahliz, the authority, but this nomination freezes in place for nearly four years.

When the war broke out or a little before, Dr. Kamel Idris continued to wander in the political walkway frequently, waving through national initiatives to collect the national ranks and dialogue between the various parties, but he did not have the decisive moment, as it does not represent a political trend or party, but he drew his image as an elite Sudanese figure who worked in international jobs, and has relations in the United Nations organizations and Western departments.

The initiatives presented or participated in it did not exceed good wishes and good endeavors and the desire to overcome the sharp points of disagreement between the Sudanese parties, and made written contributions bearing his perceptions in a book published for him years ago about the future Sudan.

After the war and the complexity of the situation in Sudan, the suspension of Sudan’s membership in the African Union and the cessation of cooperation by the European Union, the necessity required the appointment of a civilian government formed by a civilian prime minister, to open the door again to Sudan to restore its membership and full activity in the African Union, and its dealings with the European Union and the Western Parties that were required.

Among the many candidates, Dr. Kamel was always at the top of the list, and in the Sudanese media and social networks you often find invitations to take over the prime minister, and find those against him. It is a case similar to the hair of Nizar Qabbani: either you love him, or hate him and hate him hatred.

It seems that the fortunes of Dr. Kamel Idris have agreed with his political star. He has now been appointed to the site that he has always been seen soon and removed, but he is now in his hands the helm of the executive with wide powers, so what are the challenges facing him? How will he deal with it? Is it able to pass the most difficult test led by the government and Sudan to safety?

The answer to these questions is very necessary, and lies in the following:

First: The existing war challenge is the biggest challenge to the new prime minister, and he must be compatible with the position of the Sovereign Council and the leadership of the army. He must be a participant in the process of ending the rebellion and defeating it, leading the internal political process, moving externally, and starting a successful and effective government activity to ward off the risks surrounding the country as a result of external conspiracy from countries in the region, returning Sudan to its natural position with the active continental presence, restoring the African initiative to besiege the rebellion and the countries supporting it, dealing with the Sudanese neighborhood and the countries of the region and the countries of the region and the countries of the region Satisfied with the fierce war.

Second: It faces the challenge of rebuilding and activating state institutions, and reconstruction. This is one of the most complex internal challenges, and the new Prime Minister cannot take one step forward without forming a highly non -party government, it has a realistic program and practical plans to restore confidence in the state’s tools and institutions, prepare it for the next stage, leading society to integrate with the state in the process of reconstruction, preserving security and stability, providing services and returning the displaced and refugees, and restoring what is cracking in the country’s social structure And his recovery from regional, regional and tribal strife, hate speech and violence.

Third: The Sudanese contemplate the new prime minister, to have an integrated vision of the renaissance, the treatment of disruption and economic deterioration, and to provide comprehensive perceptions to benefit from the country’s resources, and from relations with the international community; To attract aid, loans and investments, and spread a new spirit in the national economy by offering programs and slogans that drive production in all sectors, so that the Sudanese economy regains its natural cycle and his well -being again.

Fourth: One of the challenges associated with the foregoing, the largest thing that the new prime minister faces is that it came from outside the internal context in contact with the country’s structural, political, service and development problems. The man in all his career did not stay only very limited in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then he immigrated on his long journey, and he remained far from the interactions of the interior and his concerns. It is not possible to claim that he is close to the defects in the state and society, and he has not acquired an internal practical experience in state institutions: How does it work, how do you start, and how to manage? It is not related to the complications of society and its intractable diseases, the most prominent of which is the worldly loyalties: (tribalism – regionalism – racist discourse – ethnic nervousness), all of which are medicines that require experience, skill, experience and open mind close to the habitat of pain and resolutions.

If the challenges of the current internal and external stage stand as a performance of the new prime minister, then the biggest challenge is how to deal with the intersections of the internal reality, address the state of external polarization, activate the state apparatus, the good selection of ministers and assistants, and to conduct a comprehensive reform of the executive system, curb and fight corruption, and send hope in the hearts of the Sudanese again. And that, for my life, is an arduous task without the catastrophe.

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