Who is the most prominent candidate for the position of Prime Minister of Sudan after Al-Burhan's coup?
Two days after the Sudanese army chief, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, announced the dissolution of the Sovereignty Council and the government and the imposition of a state of emergency, the name of Kamel Al-Tayeb Idris is presented as one of the most prominent candidates for the position of prime minister, instead of Abdullah Hamdok, who was removed from his position after the coup in Sudan.
According to information obtained by Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Idris came to Sudan a few days ago, in arrangement with the two coups, and is trying to obtain the support of other political forces. Today, Wednesday, he met with the leader of the coup, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, but an official decision has not yet been issued to assign him to form a government.
Meanwhile, Al-Burhan is still hoping to persuade Hamdok to continue in the position and form an independent government of competencies.
Before the order was issued to assign him, activists on social media began a campaign against Idris' candidacy and demanded him to leave, refusing to impose it as prime minister on them to succeed Hamdok.
Idris previously held the position of Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization of the United Nations, from which he resigned after being accused of forging his birth certificate, which he denied at the time.
Before that, Idris, who was born in 1954 in northern Sudan, and holds a doctorate in international law, worked as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before being appointed to the UN position in 1997 for two terms, but he did not complete the latter after the forgery charges surfaced.
Idris was not interested in politics in his early career, but in 1999 he mediated between former Prime Minister Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi and the late Islamic thinker and politician Hassan Al-Turabi, to meet in Geneva, to persuade Al-Mahdi to end his opposition to the former regime headed by Omar Al-Bashir, and to return to his activity at home, and to break his association with an alliance. The National Democratic Gathering, which opposes the regime politically and militarily, succeeded in the meeting and achieved its goal with the return of the Mahdi to the country in the same year.
In 2010, Idris entered the electoral race for the presidential seat, competing with more than 10 candidates, led by Al-Bashir, but he did not achieve any significant result in those elections.