The National Alliance of opposition parties has criticized the appointment of members to represent other political parties in the transitional national assembly.

President Salva Kiir on Monday issued a decree appointing the 10 members from 10 political parties.

But the National Alliance says the President has no right to appoint members of another stakeholder to the peace agreement.

The alliance says the President did not use a list of nominees submitted by the parties to the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission on March 4.

The chairman of the group, Dr Lam Akol, says the decree is a violation of the peace agreement and should be cancelled.

“It seems the implementation of the agreement is the responsibility of JMEC. Therefore, it is the JMEC to ensure that this decree is revised or rescinded or cancelled because it is the JMEC that took the list to the president,” Dr Lam said at a press conference in Juba on Monday.

“So they must go back and ask him, ‘what happened to the list we gave you? Why are you announcing a different list?’ That is the first step,” he said.

At the meantime, Dr Lam continued, the National Alliance will wait for a response from JMEC.

“If the JMEC succeeds, well and good. It means that they are coming back to the implementation of the peace agreement. If it doesn’t, then we have also taken other measures which we will announce when time comes,” he said.

According to the peace agreement, 68 other members will be added to the current 332 to make a transitional parliament of 400 MPs.

50 of these additional members will be from the SPLM in Opposition, one from the Former Detainees and 17 from Other Political Parties.

Dr Lam said appointing members outside the list they presented means the government is not serious with the implementation of the deal.

“These parties are in the government; they are the supporters of the government,” Dr Lam said, referring to the political parties of those appointed.