Sudan: Opposition Forces Sign Charter On 'Democratic Alternative' to NCP

4 July 2012

Khartoum — Leaders of Sudan's mainstream opposition parties managed on Wednesday to sign the Democratic Alternative Charter (DAC) which unequivocally adopts the goal of regime change through "peaceful means" while outlining the basis of how the country should be governed afterward.

Representatives of party members of the National Consensus Forces (NCF), an opposition coalition including the National Umma Party (NUP) of Al-Sadiq al-Mahdi, the Popular Congress Party (PCP) led by Hassan Al-Turabi, and the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) among others, signed the DAC in a big celebration at the headquarters of the National Unionist Party in Omdurman amid heavy presence of government security forces.

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