Syrian government closes door for running to presidential elections
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Wednesday, the People’s Assembly of the Syrian government closed the door to running for the presidential elections, after receiving 51 applications to run and compete with the current president, Bashar al-Assad.
The Syrian government, headed by al-Assad, intends to organize presidential elections on May 26, 2021.
Last week, several villages and cities of Suwayda issued a singed statement, rejecting the upcoming presidential elections, and calling for a boycott as “illegal and do not represent the aspirations of the Syrian people.”
On April 19, Hammoudah Sabbagh, Speaker of the People’s Assembly, announced the opening of the presidential elections.
The Syrian government’s election law stipulates that an application to run the President of the Republic is not accepted unless the candidate has written support for his candidacy by at least 35 members of Parliament.
On April 21, the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, considered that the upcoming presidential elections in Syria are not part of the political process stipulated in Resolution 2254 of the UN Security Council.
At the beginning of this year, the president of the Mother Syria Movement, Mo’az al-Khatib, said that the upcoming presidential elections “are a regional and international political game to float the regime and give it the legitimacy that it has never had except with an iron fist.”