The Sudanese people are anxiously waiting on the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and Forces of Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (FDFC) to draft the power-sharing agreement they reached last week. The drafting committee will submit the final version of the deal Tuesday and consultations will be completed before it is signed on Thursday, a source from the FDFC told Asharq Al-Awsat. The deal, reached in the early hours of Friday after two days of hard-won talks brokered by Ethiopian and African Union mediators, provides for the interim governing body to have a rotating presidency, as a compromise between the positions of the generals and the protesters. The blueprint proposes that a general hold the presidency for the first 18 months of a three-year transition, with a civilian taking over for the rest. The final agreement was supposed to be signed within 48 hours of its unveiling, but has been delayed to this week. Utmost secrecy has surrounded the names of potential civilian and military candidates of the sovereign council. UN economic expert Abdalla Hamdok was seen as the strongest and most prominent candidate for the position of prime minister, however, political circles have proposed head of the Sudanese Congress Party Omar al-Dukair to the post, along with Hashim Mohammed al-Fadl, a resident doctor in Britain. Dukair is being considered despite his membership in a political party, which contradicts the provisions of the agreement that demand the formation of a government of non-partisan figures. It remains to be seen whether he will resign his party post if he is appointed as premier or if the partisan condition will be waived in favor of professional competence. The sources reported to Asharq Al-Awsat that the names of candidates for the membership of the council, both civilian and military, remained mostly unchanged. Fadwa Abdel Rahman Ali Taha, Muntasir El-Tayeb and prominent protest leader, Babikir Faisal are front runners. The sources did not disclose the remaining eight names, five of which must be chosen for membership of the sovereign council by a committee in the Freedom and Change Forces. A “leadership office” of political party leaders will then sort out the nominations and approve the representatives of the Freedom and Change in the council, choose the prime minister and submit a list of at least 30 candidates, 17 of whom will be appointed ministers. A crucial meeting is expected to be held within 24 hours to reach a final agreement on the candidates before the power-sharing deal is signed on Thursday and the PM and sovereign council are revealed. Meanwhile, head of the TMC political committee Shamseddine Kabbashi said a meeting was held with the FDFC to unify media discourse. The meeting authorized a joint delegation to promote the deal across Sudan. In other news, TMC chief Abdul Fattah al-Burhan met at the Republican Palace on Monday with an Arab Parliament delegation chaired by speaker Meshaal Fahim al-Salami. He was briefed on the latest developments in the country. Salami asserted the Arab Parliament’s solidarity with Sudans leadership and its people and lauded the agreement between the TMC and FDFC. Media reports indicated that the speaker reiterated that the Arab Parliament will continue its efforts in urging the US Administration and Congress to remove Sudans name from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.