Bar Association: Amendments to the Constitutional Document are invalid
And those who made them are ignorant and unfamiliar with the Constitution
The legal expert and Secretary-General of the Sudanese Bar Association, Al-Tayeb Al-‘Abbasy, considered the amendments made by the Port Sudan Authority to the Constitutional Document invalid.
Al-‘Abbasy refuted the amendments in an interview with (Al-Rakoba) stating that the first clause in the amended document practically invalidated all the amendments that were made.
He explained that the first clause in the amended document, on which the amendment was based, states that the amendment was made in accordance with the Constitutional Document.
The Secretary-General of the Sudanese Bar Association pointed out that any amendment to the Constitutional Document should be based on the two parties’ consensus -in reference to the Civilian and Military components- in accordance with (Article 25, paragraph 3).
In this regard, Al-Tayeb Al-‘Abbasy shared that this mechanism -stipulation- cannot be achieved following the (October 25, 2021) coup, in which the Military component overthrew the Civilian component.
He emphasized that there is another mechanism; if the amendment is made by the Legislative Council or a meeting of the Council of Ministers with the Sovereignty Council, alas, this is also not possible because the Constitutional Document itself explicitly stipulated the formation of the Council of Ministers by the Civilian component.
In conclusion, Al-‘Abbasy described the latest amendment to the Constitutional Document as stupidity and constitutional ignorance on the part of those who made the aforementioned amendments.
