Content_paragraphs:  On 1 December 2020, the Sovereign Council issued decree No. 511, in which it 
  
  established the Council of Partners of the Transitional Period (CPTP), which is 
  
  composed of 29 members, including 6 representatives from the military, the Prime 
  
  Minister, 13 representatives of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), the 
  
  7 signatories of the Juba Agreement for Peace in the Sudan and 2 additional seats 
  
  reserved for unnamed representatives of the eastern track of the Juba peace process. 
  
  Only one of the 29 members is a woman. The civilian-led transitional Government, 
  
  FFC and some of the signatories of the Juba Agreement, namely the Sudan Liberation 
  
  Army/Transitional Council (SLA/TC) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-
  
  North (SPLM-N) Malik Agar faction, initially rejected the decree on the basis of fears 
  
  that CPTP would undermine other transitional institutions, referring to a provision of 
  
  the decree in which CPTP was granted “any additional powers required … to 
  
  implement its mandate and exercise its authority”. Notwithstanding those initial 
  
  rejections and following a quadripartite review by the Sovereign Council, the 
  
  transitional Government, FFC and the armed group signatories of the Agreement, 
  
  https://undocs.org/en/S/RES/2524(2020)
  https://undocs.org/en/S/RES/2524(2020)
  https://undocs.org/en/S/RES/2559(2020)
  
  
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  CPTP held its inaugural meeting on 16 December 2020. In the first statement by 
  
  CPTP, it endorsed regulations on it functioning as a “supporting” entity, in line with 
  
  the role originally envisioned for it to “coordinate between actors and resolve 
  
  differences” among the various political components. CPTP is expected to issue 
  
  internal regulations that would not “violate/breach the authorities and prerogatives of 
  
  transitional institutions” and would “complement” decree No. 511 of the Sovereign 
  
  Council.