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The president of the National Alliance of Political Parties announced on Thursday the removal of four parties from the alliance, which originally consisted of 10 entities that signed the 2018 peace deal.
Earlier this month, a crisis emerged within the alliance when seven of the alliance’s ten parties announced the removal of its leader, Kornelio Kon Ngu, who is also deputy speaker of the national legislature, accusing him of violating the good business conduct rules of the National Alliance of Political Parties and of overstaying his term in the president’s office since 2016.
Subsequently, the troubled Kong issued an order to suspend the membership of four political parties in the organization: the Communist Party of South Sudan (CPSS), the Democratic Unity Party (DUP), the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and the South Sudan National Party (SSNP).
The situation suddenly changed on Wednesday evening, and Kon issued an order to dissolve the four-party alliance.
The order reads in part: “I, Kornelio Kon Ngu, President of the National Alliance political party, hereby issue this Loss of Membership Order to remove the CPSS, DUP, NDA and SSNP from the National Alliance with immediate effect.”
On Thursday morning, Richard Omwony Valent, secretary general of the National Alliance faction allied with Kon, confirmed the dissolution of the four parties in an interview with Radio Tamazuj, saying the group chose to form their alliance instead.
“These people decided to hold a press conference, and then they decided to withdraw from the National Alliance. After they decided to withdraw, they went and formed their own alliance,” he explained. “We issued a public statement, then formed an investigative committee and called them, but they did not show up for the meeting. Then we called them to the Politburo meeting, but they did not show up.”
Omwoni said the dissolution of the four political parties was done in accordance with clauses B, C and D of the alliance’s Code of Business Conduct and that the dissolved parties were free to carry out their normal party activities but were no longer part of the alliance.
He added: “If you are not a member of the National Alliance, you do not deserve the seat, the Alliance will take their seat back because you have violated the code of conduct and you must return to your party.”
In response to their dismissal, Joseph Wall Modesto, chairman of the South Sudan Communist Party, said the dismissal decision was invalid and stated that he did not recognize Kong as the leader of the National Alliance.
“We do not recognize him as our leader and we take this position in accordance with the request of the Presidential Advisor on Security Affairs. Now, this is coming from a very important person who is implementing the revised agreement and roadmap,” he stressed. “The position of this letter is that we are no longer a member of the National Alliance, which is not correct because we do not recognize him (now), so, he is just a person who does not know what he is doing. We think he is a person who cries for no reason.”
Wol added: “What we know very well is that he (Kon Satoshi) is no longer our chairman and our National Alliance party has more members than his because we know he has only three members and the rest of the parties have problems and the party council can prove it.”
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