After changing power
Ex-rebel leader Al-Sharaa becomes Syria’s temporary president
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After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s transitional government sets the course for the future. After a “victory conference”, numerous decisions are announced.
After the change of power in Syria, De-Facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa has been appointed temporary president. As the Syrian state agency reported after a high-ranking meeting of political and military officials in Damascus, Al-Sharaa is to take on the tasks of the head of state in the transition phase.
Al-Schaharaa, formerly known as his combat name Abu Mohammed al-Dscholani, led the Sunni-Islamist organization Haiat Tahrir al-Scham (HTS), which had significantly brought about the fall of long-term ruler Bashar al-Assad. HTS emerged from the Al-Nusra front, an offshoot of the Al Qaeda terror network. The former rebel leader, in her early 40s, has been moderately moderately emphasized since the change of power.
According to the state news agency Sana, Al-Sharaa was commissioned to found a legislative advice for the transition phase until a new constitution has been drawn up. Sana quoted the spokesman for the military alliance, Hassan Abdul Ghani, who had fallen in December.
Exceptional decisions at “Victory Conference” in Damascus
The DE-FACTO rulers also explained that they will override the 2012 constitution. The parliament of the old government is dissolved, and the armed forces are also to be reorganized. Militant rebel groups are to be integrated into the state structures. “This step aims to ensure unity and stability,” Sana quoted the military spokesman Abdul Ghani.
Security bodies associated with the old government are now officially dissolved. The Baath party of the fallen ruler Assad, who has already hired her work in Syria, and institutions connected to it may no longer be active.
The decisions made representatives of the former insurgents at a so -called “victory conference”. They declared December 8, when rebel groups had practically taken the capital Damascus, to a new national holiday.
Shortly after the innovations were announced, drivers honked through the streets of the capital and celebrated the decision. “This is the beginning of a new Syria,” said Fatima, who celebrated on the central Umayaden Square. “I have to wait and see what the new leadership in Syria will do,” said a woman who was close to the old government.
Hope for a new beginning-expectations of de facto rulers
More than eight weeks ago, a rebel alliance led by the Sunni-Islamist organization Haiat Tahrir al-Scham (HTS) Assad overturned Assad. The protests broken out in 2011, which finally resulted in a civil war with international participation, have deeply split the country to this day. Nevertheless, many Syrians combine hope for a new beginning with the change of power.
For more than 50 years, the Assad family dominated Syria’s politics with a hard hand. Bashar al-Assad, which Russia and his family granted asylum for humanitarian reasons, leaves the balance sheet of serious human rights violations, including the use of chemical weapons, barrel bombs. There are also allegations of murder and state -arranged torture.
Human rights activists dampened expectations to the transitional government. They want to measure the de facto rulers on their actions.
In an interview, the former rebel leader Al-Sharaa said that the elaboration of a first constitution could take around three years and that another year would pass.
At the first visits to Damascus, Western governments made their support for reconstruction, among other things, to deal with the new government with minorities and human rights.
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Source: Stern

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