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The National Congress (; ) is the governing official political party
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
 of Sudan
Sudan

Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
. It was created in 1998 by certain elements in the former National Islamic Front
National Islamic Front

The National Islamic Front is the political organization founded and led by Dr. Hassan al-Turabi that has influenced the Sudanese government since 1979, and dominated it since 1989....
 (NIF) organization, as well as other politicians, as a legal political party. A splinter group, the Popular National Congress Party, broke off of the National Congress Party in 2000 after disagreements between President Omar al-Bashir
Omar al-Bashir

Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is the current List of Presidents of Sudan of Sudan and the head of the National Congress . He came to power in 1989 when, as a colonel in the Military of Sudan, he led a group of officers in a bloodless coup d'?tat that ousted the government of Prime Minister of Sudan Sadiq al-Mahdi....
 and former Speaker of the Parliament Hassan al-Turabi
Hassan al-Turabi

Dr. Hassan 'Abd Allah al-Turabi , commonly called Hassan al-Turabi , is a religious and Islamist political leader in Sudan, who may have been instrumental in institutionalizing sharia in the northern part of the country....
.

National Congress Party members were recently elected as heads of the Lawyers' Union and heads of most of North Sudan's agricultural unions.

The National Congress Party also has a notable Southern Sudanese membership as manifested through the inclusion of Southern National Congress members in South Sudan's government.






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The National Congress (; ) is the governing official political party
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
 of Sudan
Sudan

Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
. It was created in 1998 by certain elements in the former National Islamic Front
National Islamic Front

The National Islamic Front is the political organization founded and led by Dr. Hassan al-Turabi that has influenced the Sudanese government since 1979, and dominated it since 1989....
 (NIF) organization, as well as other politicians, as a legal political party. A splinter group, the Popular National Congress Party, broke off of the National Congress Party in 2000 after disagreements between President Omar al-Bashir
Omar al-Bashir

Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is the current List of Presidents of Sudan of Sudan and the head of the National Congress . He came to power in 1989 when, as a colonel in the Military of Sudan, he led a group of officers in a bloodless coup d'?tat that ousted the government of Prime Minister of Sudan Sadiq al-Mahdi....
 and former Speaker of the Parliament Hassan al-Turabi
Hassan al-Turabi

Dr. Hassan 'Abd Allah al-Turabi , commonly called Hassan al-Turabi , is a religious and Islamist political leader in Sudan, who may have been instrumental in institutionalizing sharia in the northern part of the country....
.

National Congress Party members were recently elected as heads of the Lawyers' Union and heads of most of North Sudan's agricultural unions.

The National Congress Party also has a notable Southern Sudanese membership as manifested through the inclusion of Southern National Congress members in South Sudan's government. The National Congress southern sector is headed by former Vice President Moses Machar and Southern Presidential Advisor Riak Gai Kok.

At the last legislative elections
Elections in Sudan

Elections in Sudan gives information on election and election results in politics of Sudan.Sudan elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature....
, December 2000, the party won 355 out of 360 seats. At the presidential elections of the same year, its candidate Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir won 86.5 % and was re-elected.

The National Congress Party is the main partner in the power-sharing agreement that is part of the comprehensive peace accords signed in January 2005 to end Sudan's civil war. The other main partner in the power sharing agreement is the formerly rebel Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement. The National Congress party head is Omar al-Bashir. In 2005 it merged with the Alliance of Working Peoples' Forces Party of former President Gaafar Nimeiry
Gaafar Nimeiry

Gaafar Muhammad an-Nimeiry was the President of Sudan from 1969 to 1985. He was born in Wad Nubawi Omdurman in central Sudan, and was the son of a postman and the great grandson of a local tribal leader from the Wad Nimeiry region in Dongola, ash-Shamaliyah the Northern State....
, who had won 9.6 % in Sudan's last Presidential elections.