The head of the Democratic Revolutionary Front of eastern Sudan said that the National Dialogue process at Khartoum's Friendship Hall has not been conducive to solving Sudan's political crisis.

Ali Akad, who is also a member of the Committee on issues of governance and implementation of the national dialogue, said that the oppositions should assemble a broader front to overthrow the National Congress Party (NCP) regime.

“This dialogue is not progressing. This ruling regime is so weak, it has no agenda, or legitimacy," Ali said.

Ali's statement comes after the chair of the governance committee physically fought with him during a National Dialogue meeting earlier this week.

For his part, political analyst Salah Duma described what’s happening in the Friendship Hall as an “NCP consultation,” not a dialogue.

He added that NCP members are the one doing consultation among themselves as most opposition parties are absent from the process. He noted that there are not even observers present at the talks.

“What happened is what we called mono-dialogue. National Congress Party was dialoguing with itself. Dialogue should be between two or three parties, but NCP regime does negotiate with itself. Dialogue is supposed to be between the Sudan ruling party NCP and the opposition parties under mediation of a neutral body," Salah said.

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