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Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council, 2019 to present

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The army chief who took control after the fall of Omar al-Bashir and led the 2021 coup, now fighting the Rapid Support Forces in a civil war that has displaced millions.

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority, strongly strength-first on war and peace and strongly traditional on culture. The profile is close to the middle on environment and technology.

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Where Abdel Fattah al-Burhan sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentCentered on environment
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsSlightly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

National conservatismPrioritizes national sovereignty, cultural identity, tradition and firm borders.96%IslamismA broad family of movements that seek to organize politics and law around Islam, from…95%MilitarismTreats military strength and martial values as central to national life.95%GaullismA French tradition of national independence, a strong presidency and a leading role for…94%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.