Sudanese Congress Party
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Sudanese Congress Party حزب المؤتمر السوداني | |
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| Secretary-General | Khalid Omer Yousif |
| Founded | 1986[1] |
| Ideology | Social democracy[1] |
| Political position | Centre-left[1] |
| Member of | National Consensus Forces[1] |
| Website | |
sudancongress.com  | |
The Sudanese Congress Party (SCP or SCoP) is a Sudanese centre-left, social democratic, pro-secular[2] political party created in 1986 as National Congress (unrelated to the National Congress Party) and renamed as the SCP in 2005.[1][3]
Khalid Omer Yousif, former secretary-general of the Sudanese Congress Party (SCP), describes the origin of the SCP in terms of three events: the 1977 creation of the Congress of Independent Students (CIS) at Khartoum University by students opposed to president Gaafar Nimeiry; the creation in 1986, following the 1985 Sudanese Revolution, of the National Congress political party led by Molana Abdel Majid Imam (unrelated to the Islamist, pan-Arabist National Congress Party); and the renaming of the National Congress to the Sudanese Congress Party in a 2005 conference between National Congress and CIS members and graduates.[1]
Leadership and structure
The first head of the SCP was Abdel-Mageed Imam and the second was Ibrahim al-Sheikh. As of November 2016[update], Omer al-Digair had been "recently" elected as the third head of the SCP.[3] Abdelmonim Omar was Acting President of the SCP in early December 2012.[4]
