Syrian President Ahmed Al -Shara said that his country needed 4 or 5 years to organize the presidential elections, which is the first time that he has been putting a calendar for the elections after less than a week after his appointment as that president of the country in the transitional phase, and less than two months after the overthrow of former President Bashar Al -Assad.
Al -Shara declared in an interview with Syria TV yesterday, Monday, “I estimated that the period will be around 4 to 5 years for the elections, because we need a large infrastructure, and this structure must be Realized and created and created needs time.
He added that the Syrian authorities will have to unify data from the country’s population to update their electoral data because “without this question, any election that will be called into question”.
Al -Shara said that Syria will apply international standards in connection with the transition period, how to apply it to the president during this period. “Let’s go to international standards, how international standards go to the president for the transition phase, so we go to these international standards and finally to an elected president and an elected power.”
He undertook to initiate a political transition which includes a national conference to form a complete government. He added: “At the conference, all the important problems in Syria will be presented and certain details will be discussed, then he will be released in a final declaration of this conference which will establish a constitutional declaration later in Syria … then the invitation will be sent to those who believe that they represent the Syrian people in general.
The economist of the English magazine quoted Al -Shara saying: “We will hold free and fair elections and finish the drafting of the Constitution after 3 to 4 years,” he said -according to the magazine -“We will name a government within one month and will be more diverse with the participation of all groups in the company. “
Al -Sharaa added that they had obtained the approval of all armed factions to join the new Syrian army, and said that anyone who retains a weapon outside of state control will be exposed to procedures, indicating that the courts will be based on the separation of cumulative cases to existing civil law.
The English magazine also quoted him saying that Israel should withdraw from the land he occupied after the fall of the regime.
He also declared – according to The Economist – that US President Donald “Trump seeks peace and seeks to restore relations with Washington in the coming days”, and also talked about his commitment to Turkey that “Syria will not be A base for the PKK.
On the other hand, Al -Shara said they were looking for Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s investments in infrastructure and the creation of job opportunities, and considered that “Saudi Arabia and the Qatar loves Syria very much and rushed to support our people from the first moment. “
Last week, the new Syrian administration announced that Sharia law resumed the country’s presidency in the transition period, as well as other decisions, including the armed factions solution, the security services, the People’s Assembly and the Party Baath, who ruled the country for decades, and canceling the constitution after the reversal of the Bashar Al -Assad regime on December 8. The past first.