SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Reuters - Analysis: Under military's watch, Sudan's former ruling party making a comeback
Amid Sudanese fears that Islamists could soon be back in influential positions and potentially running in elections, Reuters report that the coup regime is “unofficially” rehabilitating the Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) that ruled Sudan under former dictator Omar al-Bashir as a way to “assemble a civilian political base in an attempt to build a case for badly-needed foreign financial support suspended after the coup.”
With scores of NCP Islamists freed from jail and reinstated into institutions including: the central bank, judiciary, public prosecutor, prime minister's office, foreign ministry and state media – director of the Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker Suliman Baldo said “bringing back the Islamists could stoke political tension and has already contributed to bureaucratic paralysis.”
Nasredeen Abdulbari, justice minister in the pre-coup transitional government, said the military was “ambivalent” towards Islamists and did little to weed them out from the security services.