\nJenifer James<\/b><\/p>\n
Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The parties that signed the peace accord are expected to decide whether the December 2024 elections will be based on the new constitution, said the national minister of cabinet affairs, Dr Elia Lomuro.<\/p>\n Addressing the 35th RJMEC plenary meeting in Juba on Thursday, Dr Lomuro said the parties will meet today and make crucial decisions on handling the pending tasks given that only seven months remain before the elections.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we have no permanent constitution, how do we go for an election? Because the agreement says we shall go for an election based on a permanent constitution, we will have views from different parties; some will reject them, and some of the parties will say we don\u2019t need a constitution to run an election,\u201d Lomuro told the plenary.<\/p>\n According to Lomuro, \u201cChapter 4 has been assessed by the concerned institutions and is now submitted to the High-Level Standing Committee (HLSC) consideration, which, as I said earlier, is set to be on Saturday, May 25, 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Lomuro, the High-Level Standing Committee will embark on the details of the discussions of the election-related points after the review and pursuit of a consensus.<\/p>\n \u201cThe base is the status of implementation of those critical provisions contained in the roadmap that will take the country to an election. Once that is finished, we will now ask ourselves the question of political parties\u2019 registration,\u201d said Lomuro.<\/p>\n The committee will discuss the fate of the constitution, the type of elections, the census and voter registration.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cAfter the discussion, whatever will be presented to the leadership and to the parties to the agreement, and all the heads of the political parties will be based on tangible results agreed upon by all the parties.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t need experts [because we have national] experts, so that is the approach we are adopting to reach consensus on elections.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr Lomuro said the committee charged with the implementation of the actions continues to review the implementation status of the roadmap.<\/p>\n \u201cSo far, chapters one, two, three, five, and six have been reviewed and agreed upon by all the parties signatory to the agreement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In August 2022, the government and the other signatories to the 2018 peace agreement signed the roadmap, preparing for a democratic end to the transitional period. The deal extended the period with an extra two years and stipulated how the remaining provisions would be tackled in the next two years chapter by chapter.<\/p>\n Source: The City Review South Sudan<\/b><\/p>\n For More News And Analysis About South-Sudan<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jenifer James Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The parties that signed the peace accord are expected to decide whether the December 2024 elections will be based on the new constitution, said the national minister of cabinet affairs, Dr Elia Lomuro. Addressing the 35th RJMEC plenary meeting in Juba on Thursday, Dr Lomuro said the parties will meet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":58924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[234,265,490,624,236,233],"class_list":["post-58925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-elections","tag-parties","tag-south-sudan-2","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"\n