There are several prominent Dinka Ngok in both the Sudan People's Liberation Army, which fought for the south's independence, and in the SPLM, its political wing.
The main southern opposition party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), withdrew its presidential candidate and most of its parliamentary ones in the north.
In South Sudan the primary political parties are the ruling party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), and its offshoot, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement Democratic Change (SPLM DC).
He waged the fight for independence mainly through the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and its armed wing, the SPLA.
It [the SPLM government] has not met expectations and our basic values are ignored.
Correspondents say the SPLM-North sees itself as continuing in the footsteps of the movement from which it sprang, the SPLM, which now runs South Sudan.
"The NCP is planning to renege on its commitments, because it wants our petrodollars," the SPLM secretary-general, Pagan Amum, said in the heated atmosphere before the deal was struck.
The SPLM leadership spends 60% of its income on weapons and army pay, as an insurance, it is argued, against renewed hostilities with the north.
"Why did the SPLM fail to govern South Sudan even though it had all the money and 70% of the power?" he asked.
For the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the southerners' main party, led by Salva Kiir, it is the culmination of half a century of often bloody struggle for recognition against successive Islamist regimes in Khartoum.
