Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has hinted at not participating in the upcoming elections saying new faces who have never served in the government will take over the leadership when elections are conducted at the end of the country’s transitional period in 2023.
Kiir who is also the chairman of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party made the remarks during a meeting with members of the SPLM Youth League in Juba on Saturday in which he called for timely conduct of elections to end the country’s unending wars at the end of the transitional period.
“When we go for elections, new faces will come in, not from the people who are working in the government now, but people you haven’t seen before and that way we will have peace in our country. From now, you prepare yourselves to engage with the grassroots, so that they know the program of the SPLM,” Kiir said.
The South Sudan president however did not specify who was going to take over from among the youth at the end of the transitional period, but there have been speculations in recent months that the president is preparing his son, Thiik Mayardit, for the leadership after appointing him as deputy executive director in the office of the president.
Kiir’s comments also comes after the People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA) called for a popular uprising against Kiir’s government accusing it of failing to achieve promises made during the liberation struggle to the people of South Sudan.
