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03:40 a. M.
Thursday 26 November 2020
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Sudan’s Umma Party leader Sadiq al-Mahdi died at the age of 85 from his Coronavirus infection, after his health deteriorated and he was transferred to the UAE for treatment.
Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi headed the Sudanese government at the age of thirty-one, and he is one of the youngest prime ministers after only five years of leading the Ansar and leading the United National Front, and he is only twenty-six years old.
Al-Mahdi was born in December 1935 in Omdurman, the largest city in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, and earned a master’s degree in economics from Oxford University in 1957.
For decades, al-Sadiq al-Mahdi represented a controversial situation in Sudan and beyond, at the level of thought and politics, but he adhered to a nationalist reconciling approach even with the most intransigent in his criticism, which earned him a charisma. single politician.
The last period of Sadiq al-Mahdi’s ministry ended with a military coup, led by ousted President Omar al-Bashir in 1989, which led some observers to accuse him of aborting democracy after the 1964 revolutions, which ended a 6-year military government led by Ibrahim Abboud and 1985, which overthrew Jafar Nimeiri, but Sadiq al-Mahdi was known for his personality highly committed to the democratic approach, and during his two terms, he was far from any suspicion of empowerment or corruption, which earned him more respect despite different points of view on his opinions and ideas.
Between democracy and dictatorship
During his first term as president of the Sudanese government, he led effective measures to curb corruption and achieve many achievements, but against it a tripartite coalition was formed between the dissident wing of the Umma Party, the National Unionist Party and the People’s Democratic Party, which he overthrew. in May 1967. The Umma Party fought in the 1968 elections with dissent and then met again in 1969, but did not benefit from its new strength due to the coup of May 25, 1969, which undermined constitutional legitimacy.
He led the opposition to the regime from within after being exiled abroad several times, and harmonized with the popular anger that resulted in the Rajab Revolution of April 1985.
In the first elections after the Rajab revolution, the Umma Party won the majority and Mr. Al-Sadiq was elected Prime Minister. One of the most important actions he carried out in that period was to seek a national assembly to solve basic problems at the national level, and to fight for Islamic roots through popular consensus and by constitutional means, until the coup of June 30. 1989.
He went into exile after the military coup, and began the largest diplomatic and political campaign in that opposition since his formation abroad, until he returned to Sudan with an agreement on November 23, 2000, in a process called “triumph”, with the in order to carry out popular mobilization, party organization, negotiation with the regime and continue diplomatic contacts. .
In 2014, he criticized the Sudanese authorities and was arrested, and had previously been imprisoned several times, in 1969, 1973, 1983 and 1989.
