The Transitional Legislative Council ( ''al majlis al tashrieiu al aintiqaliu al sudaniu'') is a planned

legislative body A legislature (, ) is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city on behalf of the people therein. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial powers o ...

for

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

to be formed as a stage in the Sudanese transition to democracy. As of February 2025, the Transitional Legislative Council is not yet operational and instead, the members of the

Transitional Sovereignty Council The Transitional Sovereignty Council () is the collective head of state of Sudan, formed on 21 August 2019, by the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration. The initial council was dissolved by its Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in the ...

and

Cabinet of Sudan The Cabinet of Sudan usually refers to the chief executive body of the Republic of the Sudan. The constitutional cabinet was dissolved following the 11 April 2019 Sudanese coup d'état. In August 2019, a transitional government was formed with ...

constitute a Transitional Legislative Authority to act as the Sudan's interim legislature.

Background

Prior to the overthrow of president

Omar al-Bashir Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Head of state of Sudan, Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in 2019 Sudanese c ...

in a

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in April 2019, Sudan's National Legislature was bicameral with a 50-member Council of States and a 450-member

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. As part of a transition to democracy, a 300-member Transitional Legislative Council was to have been formed to act as Sudan's legislature until elections planned for 2022. A transitional constitution was adopted in August 2019 resulting in a

and

interim government A provisional government, also called an interim government, an emergency government, a transitional government or provisional leadership, is a temporary government formed to manage a period of transition, often following state collapse, revolut ...

being formed. The transition period ended abruptly following a further

, led by

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman al-Burhan (; born 11 July 1960) is a Sudanese army general who has been the ''de facto'' List of heads of state of Sudan, leader of Sudan since 2019. Following the Sudanese revolution, Sudanese Revolution in Ap ...

, in October 2021. A

civil war A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same Sovereign state, state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies.J ...

between the al-Burhan led

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(SAF) and the paramilitary

Rapid Support Forces The Rapid Support Forces (RSF; ) is a paramilitary force formerly operated by the government of Sudan. The RSF grew out of, and is primarily composed of, the Janjaweed militias which previously fought on behalf of the Sudanese government. RSF ...

(RSF) led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo broke out in April 2023.

Transitional Legislative Council proposed in 2019

Under the terms of the constitutional declaration, a Transitional Legislative Council was to be formed within three months of the declaration entering into force. The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) group was to nominate two-thirds of the members of the council with the remaining third appointed by "other forces". The council was to have no more than 300 members of which a minimum of 40% should be women. Members of the National Congress Party were not permitted to be members of the council. Other criteria for membership are being a Sudanese national, at least 21 years old, not having been convicted of a criminal offence, possessing integrity and competence and being able to read and write. Lebanese academic Gilbert Achcar credits the No to Oppression against Women Initiative and Women of Sudanese Civic and Political Groups for having been influential in obtaining the 40% quota for women. In November 2019, the FFC stated that the distribution of seats would be proportional to the population distribution, "taking into account the representation of all communities in Sudan". Following the signing of a peace agreement signed on 31 August 2020 between the Transitional Government of Sudan and rebel factions in

Darfur Darfur ( ; ) is a region of western Sudan. ''Dār'' is an Arabic word meaning "home f – the region was named Dardaju () while ruled by the Daju, who migrated from Meroë , and it was renamed Dartunjur () when the Tunjur ruled the area. ...

South Kordofan South Kordofan ( ') is one of the 18 States of Sudan, wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 158,355 km2 and an estimated population of approximately 2,107,623 people (2018 est). Kaduqli is the capital of the state. It is centered on t ...

and

Blue Nile State Blue Nile State ( ') is one of the eighteen states of the Republic of the Sudan. It was established by presidential decree nº 3 in 1992 and it is named after the Blue Nile River. The region is host to around forty different ethnic groups. Its e ...

, a quarter of seats on the council will be reserved for the members of those factions.

Transitional Legislative Authority

On 23 February 2025, the transitional constitution was amended to extend the transitional period for a further 39 months. The amended constitution empowers the members of the

and the

to jointly constitute a Transitional Legislative Authority which acts as Sudan's interim legislature until the Transitional Legislative Council is established.https://sudantribune.com/article297656/

Members

;Members of the Transitional Sovereignty Council *

Malik Agar Malik Agar (; born Nganyofa Agar Eyre Nganyofa) is a Sudanese politician and former insurgent leader who was active in the insurgency in Blue Nile state. Since 2023, he has been the deputy chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Sud ...

* Shams al-Din Khabbashi * Yasser al-Atta * Ibrahim Jabir Karim *El Hadi Idris Yahya *El Tahrir Abubakr Hajar * Raja Nicola *Abdulgasim Bortom *Yousef Jad Karim *Abdelbagi al-Zubeir *Salma Abdul Jabbar al-Mubarak *Nawara Abu Muhammad Muhammad Taher ;Members of the Cabinet *

Kamil Idris Kamil El-Tayeb Idris Abdelhafiz (; born 26 August 1954) is a Sudanese statesman, scholar, international civil servant and politician who has been the 16th prime minister of Sudan since 31 May 2025. He was Director General of the World Intellectu ...

*Al-Tahami al-Zein Hajar Mohamed *Omar Mohamed Ahmed Siddig

References

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Sudanese revolution

Background

Transitional Legislative Council proposed in 2019

Transitional Legislative Authority

Members

See also

References