[3][4][5] This replaced the Interim National Constitution of the Republic of Sudan, 2005 (INC) adopted on 6 July 2005,[6] which had been suspended on 11 April 2019 by Lt. Gen Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf in the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état.
[8] Voters in Sudan’s single-party system approved the constitution in a 1998 referendum, a process that raised questions about the degree to which the public accepted the document.
[8] In 1999, dissenting members of the National Assembly (the lower house of the legislature) tried to amend the constitution by restricting the president’s involvement in the selection of candidates for governors of the federal states.
[8] On May 26, 2004, the government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed the Protocol on Power Sharing, later part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
[8] Before the end of the six-year interim period mandated by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the NCRC was also responsible for organizing an inclusive constitutional-review process.
[8] Blue Nile and South Kordofan States, disputed areas that are also strategically located, posed problems for the constitutional-development process.
[8] The Interim National Constitution was officially suspended following the April 2019 military coup which overthrew the country's President of 30 years Omar al-Bashir.
[7][11] On 5 July 2019, the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) alliance, representing a wide range of citizens' groups, political opposition parties and armed opposition groups who had protested for many months since December 2018 via massive and sustained civil disobedience, agreed on a deal with the Transitional Military Council (TMC) for a 39-month plan of recreating political institutions to return to a democratic system.