Autonomous administration in southern Syria is urgent demand, politician
Suwayda, Syria (North Press) – The idea of establishing an autonomous administration in the south of Syria has become a persistent need with the aim to solve the Syrian crisis, Marwan Maddah, a politician of Suwayda said.
Days ago, protesters in Suwayda called for the establishment of a civil fair city without partisan, sectarian, or racial discrimination and without monopoly of power. “A state of law and institutions, not a state of corruption and tyranny”.
“I can see no real relationship between the protests and the idea of the autonomous administration, which was proposed in Syria for few years, and it is already implemented in northeast of Syria as well as in other Syrian territories,” Maddah said.
He added that the protests in Suwayda prompted us to think more widely of the autonomous administration and the people have conveyed this idea largely during the protests.
In early January, anti-government widespread protests were staged in Suwayda on the wake of the government’s decision to lift subsidy from the main staples through the ration card from thousands of Syrian families.
The idea of the autonomous administration in itself is a part of a comprehensive administration and an autonomous administrative region for the south of Syria.
It is of the ultimate solution for a federal no-centralized Syria. Suwayda has a special internal ruling in the south of Syria, he noted.
“The autonomous administration is no longer just a notion unleashed by the intellectuals and it has never been. Rather, it is a critical need for the people of Suwayda and a matter of living, services and the need to feel safe in order to police the proliferation of weapons, militias and illegal drugs,” Maddah indicated.