Jenifer James
Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The inter-party dialogue on the election process among South Sudanese political parties is still ongoing, said the spokesperson of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), Pal Mai Deng.
The parties commenced the negotiations after facing pressure from civil society and the peace granters, who called for a consensus on the subject of the election.
Addressing the media after the reception of the defectors on Saturday, Deng stated that the parties had started a dialogue on the evaluation of the implementation of the peace agreement in Juba.
“I appreciate the SPLM-IG, which is our partner in peace, for accepting our call for dialogue on the evaluation of the implementation of the agreement. The parties to the agreement are now in serious engagement, trying to evaluate the implementation of the agreement to see to it that what has been achieved and what has not been achieved, and at the end of it, a decision will be made whether we will have an election at the end of the roadmap or we go for an extension,” he said.
Deng said the inter-party dialogue would arrive at a decision on whether parties will go for election at the end of the transition or resort to another extension.
“The dialogue is going well, and they have not yet concluded what they are discussing. What we know so far is that they have started with an evaluation of the revitalised agreement, trying to see what provisions of the agreement have been implemented and which ones have not been implemented,” he stressed.
According to Deng, after the first phase of the dialogue, there will be a critical evaluation of the implementation of the agreement in which the parties will now decide the fate of the election.
In March, the leader of the NDM party, Dr. Lam Akol, called for dialogue among the political parties to ensure there is political will needed for the planned general election.
Akol made this appeal in Juba when he addressed a civil society workshop on the status of the transitional process in the country.
“Dialogue is the only way to deliver the people of South Sudan from the current political mess,” he said.
Source: The City Review South Sudan
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