Three leading reformers of Sudan’s ruling party decided to break away and form a new party.
National Congress Party MP Fadlallah Ahmed Abdallah said on Saturday that together with former sports minister Hassan Osman Riziq and ex-presidential adviser Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani “decided to establish a new party carrying the hopes of the Sudanese people’, Middle East Online reported.
Mr Ahmed added that ‘we have already put in motion a plan to establish this party.”
The name and structure of the new organisation will be revealed within one week.
On Thursday, an internal NCP investigative committee ruled that the three dissidents should be ousted after they signed a memorandum criticising the regime’s deadly crackdown on protests last month.