Opposition SNC sacks half its components
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has lately sacked half of its members after making modification to some articles of the internal system.
The new system includes 37 articles, most notably of which was to decrease the SNC’s seats from 25 to 12 component.
According to Article three of the new system, the General Assembly is made up of the following components: “the Muslim Brotherhood (two members), the National Future Movement (two members), the Syrian National Movement (two members), the Assyrian Democratic Organization (two members).
It also contains the Syrian Council of Tribes and Clans (five members), Association of Syrian Independent Kurds (three members), Kurdish National Council (ENKS) (11 members) the Syrian Turkmen Council (nine members), military representation (15 members), the representative councils for governorates (eight members), and local councils for northern Syria (six members).
Any given party can assume membership by first gaining two-thirds of the General Assembly votes, and then getting approved by the SNC.
The SNC’s new system ended the memberships of several blocks including Independent Kurdish Movement, The National Action Movement for Syria, Arab Socialist Union Party, Syrian Scholar’s Association, the Free National Assembly, the Syrian National Democratic Bloc the Syriac Assyrian Component.
Article 8 of the new system stipulates, “The SNC, by doing a secret ballot, elects during the first meeting between its members a president and three deputies, one has to be a woman, and a secretary general. Each one of them has a renewable 24-month term. Those elected have the right to run again after one term passes following their last expired term.”
In Article 10, a clause was deleted; the clause stipulated that the president of the SNC, his deputies, or the Secretary General cannot appoint anyone to occupy positions of authority or to develop general plans or political programs without the approval of the SNC’s General Assembly.
The SNC’s president assigns a candidate to head the opposition’s Interim Government after consulting with the SNC’s components, as in the previous system, the members were the ones who nominated the candidates to head the Syrian Interim Government.