Syrian Coalition amendments came to redistribute power says Turkmen party
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – The recent amendments within the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces were with the aim of redistributing the power, and not because of pressure, Walid Ibrahim, head of the Syrian Turkmen Ennahda Party, who was dismissed from, said on Sunday
Last Thursday, the coalition ended the membership of four blocs within it, after excluding 14 of its members earlier this month.
Figures and blocs within the coalition rejected the leadership’s recent decisions, believing that the real reasons behind them were “an account settlement” according to press reports.
The issue here is “the redistribution of power with the entry of new people in addition to the G4,” Ibrahim told North Press, adding that: “ There are people who want to control the coalition and expel whoever oppose them . This is what happened recently.”
Ibrahim meant by G4 (Hadi al-Bahra, the co-chair of the Constitutional Committee, Anas al-Abdah, head of the Negotiating Committee, Badr Jamous, Abdulahad Astifo, in addition to the head of the current coalition, Salem al-Maslat).
“What happened has nothing to do with reform or democracy,” Ibrahim added.
“Everything was done by a decision of the head of the coalition alone. The decision to dismiss the eighteen members was not presented to the political body or the general body, and it was done with the absence of the membership committees and the legal committee.”
What happened in the meeting to vote on the statute “was not presented to the members and was not read to them in detail to vote, but was voted on as a whole, and no one is familiar with it yet,” Ibrahim said.
Ibrahim criticized the way they were informed of the decision to end their membership, “Even in the private institutions, such things never happen.”
“The Syrian Turkmen Council has understandings and agreements with the coalition on the mechanism of representation and the replacement of members. The statute stipulates that the bloc must be informed, but this was not happen to the Turkmen Council,” according to Ibrahim.
He pointed out that if the coalition’s work continues this way and for this group to keep controlling everything, “there will be no reform, no progress in the political process, and no management of the liberated areas as required.”
The politician believes that the first step of reform “begins with the dismissal of those, the return of the legal and membership committee, and the amendment of the statute by a committee not from the coalition.
“The absence of law opens the way for transgressions and violations. If there were a judicial authority, we would resort to it to solve all these matters. However, we now resort to the fourth authority; the media, due to the absence of the rest of the authorities,” he said.