SPLM MPs In National Assembly Recalled To Khartoum To Endorse Referendum results

10 January 2011 - (Juba) - The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement parliamentarians in the National Legislature have been called back to Khartoum to bless the final referendum.

The leader of the SPLM Parliamentary Caucus in the National Legislature, Thomas Wani Kundu spoke to SRS in Juba on Wednesday.

[Thomas Wani]: “All the members of the National Legislature have been called for an emergency sitting to take place on the 21st of this month to bless the results. There will be no any deliberations, but rather to bless or to unanimously pass the final results of the referendum which were announced on Monday as were endorsed by the council of ministers and a republican decree issued. The sitting is being called because all the procedures: the formulation of the referendum law and the formation of the referendum commission all started in the National Legislature and at the end we must be the last people to pass the results in the parliament.”

Mister Kundu further said there are 114 southern Sudanese legislatures who are expected to return to southern Sudan after the 9th of July when the interim period elapses.

Kundu also disclosed that there are eight SPLM MPs from Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States who by virtue of their state falling on the borderline of 1-1-1956, they will continue to be members of the National Assembly in Khartoum until the term of the assembly ends.

The National Legislature will go on recess and will resume on the 1st of April to complete deliberations during the last session of the current assembly.