RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – 20 percent of the positions in the upcoming elections will be for technocrats in all the important basic administrative joints, Abd Hamed al-Mehbash, co-chair of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), said yesterday.
“The elections, expected to be held during the first quarter of next year of 2022, will guarantee that the elected people will assume the posts after the completion of the drafting of the social contract,” al-Mehbash added.
Yesterday, the political, administrative and service situation in the region for the year 2021, were discussed by politicians, intellectuals, civil activists, officials of the Autonomous Administration and leasers of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), at the annual meeting to evaluate the outcomes of the Conference for People of Jazira and the Euphrates in Raqqa, north Syria.
“The elections will include all the institutions in northeast Syria, starting with communes and ending with the highest administrative positions in the Autonomous Administration,” al-Mihbash noted.
“The AANES has created the Office of Rehabilitation and Administrative Development in the Executive Council to develop plans and strategies for rehabilitation and ongoing training, and to raise the level of the workers in the Autonomous Administration and all administrative, economic and financial fields,” he told the participants.
The first batch will be graduated on December 24 with the aim of empowering women and youth in the fields of work by 50% in the institutions of the Autonomous Administration, whether political or administrative, and this is guaranteed in the new social contract, according to al-Mehbash.
Last week, the extended committee for drafting the social contract for northeast Syria suspended its meeting after discussing and amending thirty percent of the draft contract that had been prepared by a small committee formed last July.
“The General Oversight Body’s subordination to the executive councils of the Autonomous Administration prevented the transfer of some corruption files to the Social Justice Council and the accountability of the corrupt,” Lawrence al-Borsan, a member of the follow-up committee emanating from the committee to follow up on the outcomes of the National Conference for the People of Jazira and the Euphrates in northeast Syria said yesterday.
“The short period of the implementation of the outcomes was behind the band-aid solutions that do not match the aspirations of the participants in the conference,” he added.
However, the Autonomous Administration said in its report at the meeting that it had counted 189 corruption cases in northeast Syria, some of which were referred to the judiciary and others still under investigation.
The National Conference for the People of Jazira and the Euphrates came out with 17 resolutions that dealt with administrative, political, economic, social, educational, military and security aspects of northeast Syria.