The seats of representatives of South Sudanese in the national legislature should be vacant after independence.
This is the position of nine opposition parties that yesterday walked away from the Interim Constitution Reviewing Committee because they are not happy with the SPLM positions, Bakhita Radio reported.The parties wrote in a statement read to the press by David Dechan, the UDSF leader, that representatives of the South in the National assembly must leave their seats in accordance with the Interim national Constitution of 2005.
The statement added that the MPs who leave the National Assembly do not have a place in the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly.
UDF David William explained that the mandate of southerners in the national legislature is finished.
He said that the people of South Sudan elected the parliamentarians for the national assembly.
The opposition parties said also the SPLM feels that they alone liberated South Sudan and as such must be rewarded by forming alone the government of independent South Sudan.
They added that the unity of South Sudanese at the point of independence is not important to the SPLM.
The nine political parties that jointly release the statements are UDF, USSP, SLP, SPLM- DC, CPS, UDSF, SSDF, SDA and NUDF.