Syrian election silence starts tomorrow morning
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Monday, the Syrian Supreme Judicial Committee for Elections said, the “election silence” starts tomorrow at 7 am.
With the start of the election silence, all forms of the election campaign for the candidates will stop.
The elections will take place on May 26, in which three candidates take part, Abdullah Salloum Abdullah, Mahmoud Ahmad Mer’i and the current president, Bashar al-Assad.
On May 10, one of the lawyers, who asked not to be identified, said, al-Assad and his electoral team started their electoral campaign ahead of time, in contravention of the Syrian constitution and what the head of the Supreme Constitutional Committee specified.
Earlier today, the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) announced its rejection to participate in the presidential elections after Damascus requested to conduct them in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria’s (AANES) areas.
“There will be no elections before the political solution in accordance with the international resolutions, the release of detainees, the return of the displaced, and establishment of new foundations for a political structure free of tyranny,” the SDC statement said.
In April, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric stated that the upcoming presidential elections in Syria are not part of the political process stipulated in UN Security Council Resolution 2254.